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Woman's Hour

Olympics boxing controversy, Lottie Tomlinson, Losing friends after a break-up, Golda Schultz

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This evening at the Olympics, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif will fight for a gold medal in the women’s welterweight event. Tomorrow, Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting will compete for gold in the final of the women’s featherweight boxing. Both boxers have faced serious controversy over their eligibility to compete. To take us through what’s going on, Anita Rani speaks to the BBC’s Sport Editor, Dan Roan.

Lottie Tomlinson rose to fame as the younger sister of One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson. At 16, she went on tour with the band as a make-up artist and a decade on, has become an entrepreneur. But Lottie’s mother and sister died within a few years of each other, when she was just 20-years-old. She joins Anita to talk about her experience of grief, which she’s written about her new memoir, Lucky Girl.

When writer and counsellor Lucy Cavendish split up from her partner it took her a while to realise that the friends she had believed she shared with him were now his and his alone. She joins Anita, along with Rosie Wilby, comedian and author of the book The Breakup Monologues, to discuss why friendships can fracture in a break-up and the politics of who gets to keep the friends.

The South African soprano Golda Schultz is one of the opera world’s most versatile and in-demand performers. After a music-filled childhood, she started training as a journalist but made the leap to become a professional singer and overcame severe stage fright. She talks to Anita about her appearance at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Maryam Maruf Editor: Olivia Bolton Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read

0:08.2

everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge.

0:14.7

It's part of what it means to be human.

0:17.5

Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance.

0:22.1

There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative.

0:25.0

The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan

0:29.0

with me Rory Stewart,

0:31.0

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:39.0

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womanzawa

0:42.0

from BBC Radio 4, just to say that for rights reasons

0:45.6

the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.

0:50.4

Good morning. Welcome to Friday's Woman's Hour. Have you ever had a breakup or a divorce?

0:56.7

My question to you all today is, what happened to your friends? Were you surprised?

1:02.0

Shocked even by how your friends reacted to you splitting up.

1:06.0

Did he get them? Did she keep them? Did you decide to distance yourself? And how do you feel about it?

1:12.0

Heartbroken or relieved. Looking back

1:14.4

were they even your friends anyway? The politics of a breakup. Hey maybe you've got

1:20.0

very adult mates and they were able to remain in touch with both parties and it not be an issue.

1:24.7

Do you think women get a worse deal or is it the party that people feel the most sorry for

1:29.7

because it's easier for them?

1:31.1

I'm very much looking forward to hearing your experiences

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