Stoning of Women in Afghanistan, Jazz with Zara McFarlane, AI job losses & women
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The leader of the Taliban has declared on state television that women who commit adultery will be stoned to death. Nuala McGovern speaks to the former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, Fawzia Koofi. We look at the legacy of children's TV executive Kay Benbow, hailed as “Queen of the Beebies”, who has died with historian Dr Emily Baughan and producer Anne Wood.
Our reporter Jo Morris talks to the mum of a young man who got into serious trouble with drugs in the third in our series Breaking The Cycle about SHiFT a new approach to helping young people at risk of going off the rails.
A new report by the Institute for Public Policy Research warns of an AI "jobs apocalypse" which will have the greatest impact on women and young people. We talk to Carsten Jung from the IPPR and to AI Expert Prof. Gina Neff.
And live music from Zara McFarlane who's appearing at this year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Steve Greenwood
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, this is Nula McGovron and you're listening to the podcasts. line this morning up to 8 million UK jobs are at risk from the rise of artificial |
| 0:54.8 | intelligence or AI. It's according to a report that has the warning that women and |
| 1:00.0 | young people will be the most affected where we're going to drill down into the details of that in a moment. |
| 1:05.4 | Also, over the weekend, the Taliban Supreme Leader called for women to be stoned to death |
| 1:11.2 | for adultery. We're going to hear why this |
| 1:13.8 | pronouncement has come now and we will speak to the woman who was the first |
| 1:17.4 | female deputy speaker of Afghanistan's parliament. She has fled the |
| 1:21.2 | country like so many others. You'll also hear about the |
| 1:24.5 | impact of K Benbow's career. She was a trailblazer in children's TV. |
| 1:29.0 | Sadly, Kay died yesterday at the age of 63. So we'll hear about the significance of what she achieved and we're also asking you, what role does or did children's TV play in your life? Was it an educator? Was it a |
| 1:46.1 | nanny? Was it a companion? Was it something else? And I wonder how it plays with screens now, other types of screens that are in our world. |
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