The codebreaking sisters. Women in elite sport. How female DJs are adapting during lockdown
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On VJ Day we hear from Patricia and Jean Owtram who both served their country while their father was a prisoner of war in the Far East.
We discuss the findings of the BBC Sport Elite British Sportswomen's survey 2020 published this week.
Karen Maine tells us about her new film Yes God, Yes about 16 year old Alice growing up a Catholic and attending Catholic school in the early noughties in the American mid-west.
Plus as President Alexander Lukashenko is re-elected in Belarus, we talk about the woman who challenged him.
And with nightlife on pause during lockdown how have female DJs been adapting?
Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor Beverley Purcell
GUEST Susannah Townsend GUEST; Priyanaz Chatterji GUEST; Tammy Parlour GUEST; Veronika Tsepkalo GUEST; DJ Flight GUEST; Ngaio Anyia GUEST; Karen Maine
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon. In today's program, Karen Main's film Yes, God Yes sees a teenage girl's |
| 0:07.7 | burgeoning sexuality in conflict with her Catholic education. How much is the director |
| 0:13.6 | telling her own story? The BBC's Elite British Sportswoman survey and the racism that's been |
| 0:21.1 | revealed. One of my new teammates just kept referring to me as Curry and I told her from the |
| 0:27.2 | get go that that wasn't appropriate and I didn't want to be called that but she just didn't |
| 0:31.6 | really seem to get it and didn't understand why it wasn't appropriate except for in any context. |
| 0:37.8 | Brianna's strategy who plays cricket for Scotland. Women DJs, how are they fairing during lockdown |
| 0:45.2 | when nightlife is pretty well on hold and the election in Belarus? The women who opposed |
| 0:52.8 | President Lukashenko and the intimidation and threats they have faced. I received several phone calls |
| 1:00.1 | that authorities put the pressure on the teachers and asked them to write a letter stating |
| 1:05.4 | that I'm a bad mother and the next step would be taking away my kids putting them to the orphanage. |
| 1:10.8 | So that's why my husband took the kids and they left Belarus and went to Russia. |
| 1:16.1 | Today is the 75th anniversary of VJ Day. The 15th of August 1945 saw the surrender of Japan |
| 1:24.9 | and the final end of the Second World War. It was a very significant day for two sisters from |
| 1:30.8 | Lancashire whose father had been a prisoner of war for three years in the Japanese camp at Chunkai. |
| 1:38.0 | Prisoners there were forced into the building of the infamous Burma railway. He was somewhat |
| 1:44.0 | surprised when he came home to find his two daughters had been serving their country during the war. |
| 1:50.7 | They are Jean and Patricia Outram and the book about their wartime exploits is code-breaking |
| 1:57.5 | sisters, our secret war. Patricia told me about their father's reaction to his girls when he |
| 2:04.4 | came home. Of course when he left Jean was at boarding school. I was doing a sort of junior |
| 2:11.6 | secretary at a little job and he had no idea while he was a prisoner that we had gone into the |
| 2:18.8 | women's services. Jean went into the panace and I went into the rents. So I think we changed |
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