Roxanne Tahbaz, Mina Smallman, Amara Okereke on playing Eliza Doolittle

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It has been just over two months since Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori returned to the UK from detention in Iran, and were reunited with their families. But for the family of London born businessman and wildlife conservationist Morad Tahbaz it’s been a different story. The family said they expected their father to be part of the same deal but he was only released on furlough and swiftly returned to prison. His daughter Roxanne Tahbaz joins Emma. On yesterday’s programme Nazanin paid tribute to those who campaigned for her release and in particular the ordinary women who supported her cause. Two of those women are retired primary school teacher Linda Grove and Freya Papworth from the organisation FiLia who organised a 24 hour fasting relay hunger strike. Both join Emma in the studio. Amara Okereke has taken on the role of a life time as Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady. Amara, who is 25 has been called 'the new face of British theatre' and has been performing at The Coliseum in London to rave reviews. She joins Emma to talk about the show. Mina Smallman has spoken to Woman's Hour several times to talk about her grief after the murder of her daughters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman. Two weeks ago the two former police officers who took photos of her daughters and shared them with colleagues were back in court to try and get their sentences reduced. Mina was in court to see that happen, she joins Emma. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.4	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.0	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:13.2	Thank you so much for your many emails, texts and social media messages about my conversation
0:19.1	with Nazanine Zagari Ratcliffe, which aired in full yesterday.
0:23.5	It was her first interview since being freed from prison in Iran after six long years away
0:28.2	from her home, husband and child and so many of you have been in touch.
0:32.6	I will come back to some of those messages because as I say, we've had so many and it'd be a shame not to reflect them.
0:38.2	But I should say, if you missed that exclusive interview, you can catch up on BBC Sounds.
0:43.3	It's being very well advertised on there right now.
0:45.7	You can see Nazanine as we spoke and of course you can hear that exchange in full.
0:50.9	But if you actually want to watch Nazanine as well,
0:53.7	there is a TV version available of our exchange on BBC iPlayer 2.
0:59.2	Towards the end of our conversation, Nazanine was at pains to thank all of those who campaigned on her behalf,
1:05.2	especially ordinary women who didn't know her, but still fought for her and took an interest in her story.
1:11.7	I'll be talking to two of them this morning.
1:14.3	And that's what I wanted to ask you about today.
1:17.0	Who have you taken to your heart from the news or public life and followed their story?
1:22.8	Why? What was it?
1:24.4	Perhaps you then went on to campaign for them or their cause, the issue that they were raising?
1:29.4	What petitions have you signed and actions taken?
1:32.6	Perhaps you were part of the hunger strike chain of women for Nazanine.
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