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Woman's Hour

Rebecca Cheptegei's killing, Alison Lapper, Ellen Burstyn

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei has died, after being doused with petrol and set on fire. She is the third female athlete to be killed in Kenya in the past few years. To find out more about what's going on, Krupa Padhy is joined by the BBC's Deputy Africa Editor Anne Soy and Joan Chelimo, a fellow athlete of Rebecca's.

Carol Klein is one of our best loved horticulturalists – most known for presenting shows like Gardener’s World. As well as gardening and her career on TV, she also trained as an artist and worked as a teacher. Now she’s written a memoir, Hortobiography, which looks at how her life is all connected through plants. She joins Krupa to tell us more about the book and why our relationship with nature is so important.

Artist and disability activist Alison Lapper is exploring her life in a new BBC Three documentary, In My Own Words: Alison Lapper. It examines her life from childhood to becoming a mouth artist, as well as looking at how she processed her grief after losing her son, Parys. Krupa speaks to Alison about her art, her son and her life.

Ellen Burstyn has been a star of American stage and screen for 70 years. This week she received the Liberatum Pioneer Award at the Venice Film Festival for her contribution to cinema and the industry, particularly in paving the way for women. She tells Krupa her stories from a lifetime on camera.

The Maori of New Zealand have a new Queen - 27-year-old Ngā Wai hono i te pō. She is the only daughter of the former King, and was chosen to succeed him by the Maori chiefs. To find out what this means for Maori women, we hear from broadcaster and commentator Marni Dunlop.

Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Lottie Garton

Transcript

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0:00.0

My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?

0:05.1

Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?

0:10.6

We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.

0:13.4

It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,

0:17.6

but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.

0:21.5

It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.

0:25.0

Sidetracked with us Annie and Nick,

0:27.0

listen on BBC Sounds.

0:31.0

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:34.0

Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Hour podcast.

0:39.0

Hello, welcome to Women's Hour on a Friday. Good to have you with us.

0:43.2

One of the things that we are thinking about this morning

0:46.1

is gardening.

0:47.2

I'll be speaking to the gardening expert

0:49.4

and presenter Carol Klein.

0:51.4

Plants have been an intrinsic part of her life as far as she can remember. Flowers play

0:57.1

on her emotions, they make her smile, she says. And she believes that wherever you live, even if you have the timiest of growing spaces,

1:05.9

flowers and plants can transport you to other places.

1:09.3

What do you make of that?

1:10.4

Are there certain plants, flowers, trees or even weeds that remind you of a certain person, place or event.

1:18.0

I have a wonderful plant called the Brahmael in my lounge that flowers once a year overnight for 12 hours only

1:26.3

it emits the most gorgeous of smells and it's a moment that my children and I stay up for every

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