Syria's disappeared, The orgasm cult, Bickering, Taxidermy

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Wafa Mustafa is a Syrian refugee currently living in Berlin. Her father was arrested in Syria on July 2nd 2013 and has not been heard from since. Wafa is just one of many Syrian women, who are part of Families for Freedom, a woman-led movement searching for family members who were detained or 'disappeared' by the Syrian regime, ISIS and other armed groups during Syria's brutal civil war. She joins Jane to explain why she has been sitting outside a court in Koblenz with over 60 framed photographs. They are joined by the BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville.

A new BBC podcast, The Orgasm Cult, looks into a wellness company called One Taste and it’s co-founder, Nicole Daedone, who believed that orgasm would one day sit alongside yoga and meditation as the self-care practice for the modern empowered woman. One Taste taught orgasmic meditation or Om-ing as it’s called by those in the know. Reporter Nastaran Tavakoli-Far talks to Jane.

Do you and your other half bicker? Has lockdown brought out the bickerer in you? Or maybe you see it in others, especially couples who’ve been together for a long time. We speak to Penny Mansfield, expert on relationships from One Plus One and Deborah and Gary Marshall.

Elle Kaye specialises in bird taxidermy. Aged 27, she is one of a growing number of young women who have made taxidermy their trade.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
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0:41.0	Hi this is Jane Garvey.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Woman's Our Podcast Tuesday the 24th of
0:46.2	November 2020. It is good morning to you. On the program today we're going to hear
0:51.2	from the young Syrian woman who is looking for
0:53.7	her father like hundreds of thousands of people he has disappeared in Syria the civil
0:59.4	war there started almost a decade ago still still so much suffering. We'll also talk to
1:04.9	Quentin Somerville, who's our Middle East correspondent to tell us a little bit about
1:08.4	what is happening in Syria right now. Also later in the program at Young Women and Taxidermy, yes really, it's
1:16.4	becoming much more popular with young women. Interestingly, some men in the
1:20.7	trade don't like that very much. That's a little bit later and
1:24.0	bickering have you been doing more of it at home in lockdown. On social media
1:29.7	at BBC Woman's Air is where you'll find us you can email the program of course
1:33.2	via our website and first of all the American Organization One Taste founded back in
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