Sinners, AI boyfriends, Autistic girls, Abuse and Muslim women
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw has been nominated for an Academy Award for “Sinners," an American horror film nominated this year for a record sixteen Oscars and thirteen BAFTAs. It's a period drama written and directed by Ryan Coogler, set in the 1930s South, with a supernatural twist. Autumn’s previous credits include The Last Showgirl and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Anita talks to Autumn about her career so far and becoming the first woman of colour - and only the fourth woman ever - to be recognized in the Oscars cinematography category.
Following the summer riots in 2024, the Women and Equalities Committee examined the impact of increasing tensions on women in Muslim communities across the UK and reported that the online, verbal and physical abuse and discrimination faced by Muslim women was having a ‘deeply damaging impact on individual lives and a corrosive effect on community cohesion’. Baroness Shaista Gohir OBE, CEO of the Muslim Women’s Network and Iman Atta, CEO of Tell Mama join Anita to discuss the WEC’s findings.
AI companions are becoming increasingly common, with one in three adults now using them for conversation, advice and support. Now recent research from Bangor University has shown that many teen AI companion users believe their bots can think or understand. That research prompted Nicola Bryan, a reporter for BBC Wales News to investigate and acquire an "AI boyfriend" of her own in the process. Nicola talks to Anita about what happened next.
Autism probably affects girls and boys equally, according to a long term study by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The new research challenges previously held assumptions that autism is more common among males; it found that by the age of twenty, the male-to-female ratio of diagnoses was equal. But in children aged under ten, four boys are diagnosed for every one girl. To discuss the findings, Anita is joined by Doctor Judith Brown, Head of Evidence and Research at the National Autistic Society and Betsey, an autistic 18-year old university student.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt
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| 0:45.1 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:47.8 | Good morning and welcome to the program. |
| 0:57.0 | The brilliant film Sinners has received a record 16 Oscar nominations and 13 BAFTA nominations and if you've seen it, |
| 1:02.8 | you won't be surprised. It is stunning to watch thanks to the cinematographer, Autumn Daryld Archipole. She has been nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA and she's here to talk to us. |
| 1:08.8 | There is an increase in abuse online, verbal and physical towards Muslim women in the UK, |
| 1:14.5 | and it's unsurprisingly having a damaging impact on lives. |
| 1:18.3 | According to a report by the Women and Equality Select Committee, we'll be finding out more. |
| 1:23.6 | And according to new research, Swedish research, in fact, for every four boys under the age of 10 diagnosed with autism, one girl is diagnosed. |
| 1:32.5 | But over time, that becomes equal. There are just as many autistic women as men. |
| 1:38.3 | So why are women diagnosed later? We'll be discussing the findings of the study, which tracked 2.7 million people and speaking |
| 1:45.1 | with a young woman who got her diagnosis as a teenager. And this morning, I'd like to hear |
| 1:50.2 | your experiences. Do you or your daughter have autism? When did you find out? How did you navigate |
| 1:55.7 | life before? What shape did your masking tape? What difference did the diagnosis make to you or your daughter's life or any woman, young or old, who you may know, who has autism? |
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