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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:09.8 | While it might be a new week, fighting in Ukraine shows no sign of abating. |
0:14.0 | If anything, the opposite, as the war moved to the frontiers of European Union and NATO |
0:19.8 | yesterday, when Russia bombed a military base less than 15 miles from the Polish border. |
0:25.5 | But how are you keeping up to date with it? |
0:28.0 | Are you listening? |
0:28.9 | Are you reading? |
0:29.9 | Are you watching? |
0:30.9 | Maybe none of those things, perhaps from the beginning or maybe at this point. |
0:34.7 | But often, it is images which bring particular moments of clarity and engagement during a bombardment. |
0:41.0 | And one such image was taken last week of a pregnant woman being stretched from her maternity |
0:45.6 | ward after Russia bombed the maternity and children's hospital where she was meant |
0:49.9 | to give birth in Marriable. |
0:52.1 | You may recall it, it was last Wednesday, and the image taken showed a woman lying on a |
0:57.6 | red and black spotty piece of material, hand below her large stomach with her head on one |
1:02.3 | side, looking extremely pale. |
1:05.2 | We don't know her name, but we do know as of this morning, as you've just heard in the |
1:09.3 | news that she and her child have died. |
1:12.7 | They did not make it. |
1:14.3 | In a moment I'll be talking to a correspondent about what she's been seeing and finding |
1:18.5 | and some of the stories that are cutting through and making this war very real indeed, but |
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