Nadine Shah, Vivian Oparah, Baby loss certificates, Amber Heard trolling
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Through her songs, the Mercury prize nominated singer/songwriter Nadine Shah has explored mental health, the refugee crisis and feminism. The subject matter of her last album, Kitchen Sink, included themes of fertility, tradition and identity told through the stories of women at different stages of their lives. Now Nadine’s latest work - Filthy Underneath – is a raw collection of songs which chronicle a period of unprecedented turbulence in her life from grief to addiction and PTSD.
The new podcast Who Trolled Amber? investigates allegations that Amber Heard was trolled online by an army of AI bots after her trial with Johnny Depp. Podcast host Alexi Mostrous and Professor Gina Neff, Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, discuss this and the wider implications of abuse of women online. Parents across England who lost a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy can now apply for a baby loss certificate as part of a new government scheme. Babies who are born dead after 24 weeks are officially registered - but this doesn’t happen for babies born before that stage. Every year there are thought to be a quarter of a million miscarriages and more than 11,000 hospital admissions for losses because of ectopic pregnancies. Now, campaigners say they’re thrilled that families will finally get the acknowledgement that their baby existed - for however short a time. Emma Barnett speaks to one such campaigner - Zoe Clark-Coates – who runs the baby loss and bereavement charity The Mariposa Trust and campaigned for these certificates for nine years. Vivian Oparah played the female lead in British hit film Rye Lane, for which she was Bafta-nominated this year. She's now starring in a new TV comedy thriller called Dead Hot, playing the sister of a man who's mysteriously disappeared. Vivian joins Emma in the Woman's Hour studio.
Presented by Emma Barnett Producer: Louise Corley Studio Engineers: Emma Harth & Gayl Gordon
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| 0:00.0 | If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them? |
| 0:06.0 | Anonymity is our most valuable gift. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Kristi Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self. |
| 0:16.0 | Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer. |
| 0:20.0 | Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B. |
| 0:24.1 | I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things. |
| 0:30.0 | Young again, with me, Kirstie Young, |
| 0:33.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:40.0 | Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Women's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Just to say that for |
| 0:46.9 | rights reasons the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this |
| 0:51.6 | podcast. Good morning and welcome to the program. |
| 0:55.0 | Today I can promise you live music with a searing message from Nadine Shah, |
| 0:59.0 | some excellent drama from the star of the British hit film Ry Lane, Vivian Oprah and details of |
| 1:04.7 | a new certificate thousands of women have been applying for. But first let's turn |
| 1:09.7 | our attention to something naughty, difficult and crucial, a new line of critical thinking |
| 1:15.1 | that perhaps women need to be particularly equipped with. The idea of this has |
| 1:21.2 | come from a trial that gripped audiences around the world for good or for bad. |
| 1:26.0 | In 2022 a legal battle between the former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard unfolded in a Virginia courtroom. |
| 1:33.7 | Deppard launched a $50 million defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife following a newspaper |
| 1:38.7 | opinion piece in which she stated she was a public figure representing domestic abuse. |
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