Theresa May's Legacy for Tory Women, Angélique Kidjo, Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The UK’s second female Prime Minister stepped down last week after a turbulent three years in office. In the last few weeks commentators have picked over Theresa May’s failure to deliver Brexit, her loss of the Conservative majority in the 2017 General Election and her limited progress in tackling the burning injustices she described on the steps of Downing Street in 2016. Today, we turn to a subject that Woman’s Hour first interviewed Theresa May about nearly 20 years ago, encouraging women to stand as MPs and to get on in the Conservative Party. We discuss her legacy for women in politics and look at how women will fare under Boris Johnson’s premiership.
Angélique Kidjo is a singer from Benin who’s won three Grammys and made 13 albums. This year she makes her Proms debut with her nine-piece band in a late-night tribute to the celebrated salsa songstress Celia Cruz.
Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin tricked New York’s city’s elite into thinking she was a wealthy German heiress. In reality she was a fraudster with no trust fund who convinced banks, hotels and friends that her fortune could cover her lifestyle as well as her future plans to set up an arts foundation in her name. She was found guilty of a number of charges including grand larceny, attempted larceny and theft of services. Rachel Deloache Williams, a key witness in the trial, discusses her new book ‘My Friend Anna’.
Presenter: Tina Daheley Interviewed guest: Anne McElvoy Interviewed guest: Katy Balls Interviewed guest: Angélique Kidjo Interviewed guest: Rachel Deloache Williams Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:34.4 | Hello and welcome to Monday's edition of the Women's Hour Podcast, I'm Tina Dehealy. She's been described as the undisputed |
| 0:46.0 | she's been described as the undisputed |
| 0:55.0 | she's been described as the undisputed Queen of African Music. The three-time Grammy Award winning singer Angeli Kijo is here to talk about her prom's debut tomorrow night |
| 1:01.0 | and her new album Celia, a tribute to the Cuban singer who died 15 years ago. |
| 1:07.0 | Now unfortunately we're not able to podcast live the full music element of today's program |
| 1:11.9 | and that's because of copyright reasons. |
| 1:15.0 | Anna Sorakin was the fake German heiress who scammed her way into the high life in New York, conning banks, |
| 1:21.7 | high-end hotels and restaurants along the way. |
| 1:25.0 | Anna's friends, Rachel Deloge Williams is with us in the studio to tell us about a book she's |
| 1:29.1 | written about what happened. |
| 1:31.7 | But first, Theresa May. The UK's second female Prime Minister stepped |
| 1:36.6 | down last week after a turbulent three years in office. In the last few weeks |
| 1:41.5 | commentators have picked over her failure to deliver Brexit, |
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