Tina Turner legend, Let's Eat Grandma, Whips, Sudan's women, Helen Hardy
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Tributes are being paid to the Queen of Rock n Roll, Tina Turner, who has died aged 83 after a long illness. Turner became one of the world's most famous music icons, known for her smash hits What's Love Got to Do With It , We Don't Need Another Hero and The Best. To pay tribute to this music legend, Anita is joined by the music journalist Jacqueline Springer and Dhivya Kate Chetty, the director of When Tina Turner Came to Britain.
More than a million people have been displaced over the last five weeks as two men fight for control of Sudan. The United Nation’s Population Fund says there’s been a 900% increase in reports of gender based violence since the start of the conflict and doctors are reporting a rise in the number of women seeking help after being raped. Anita Rani talks to Nima Elbagir, a Sudanese-born journalist and CNN's Chief International Investigative Correspondent and Dr Attia Abdullah who’s a doctor in Khartoum and General Secretary of the Sudan doctors trade union.
Helen Hardy grew up in Newcastle loving football, playing it and watching it. At the 2019 Women's World Cup in 2019 she had a lightbulb moment as she looked around the stands and realised all the female fans were wearing men's football shirts, despite clearly being fans of the women's game. She set up Foudy's in 2020, the first retailer dedicated to selling shirts for women's football. The judges for this year's Woman's Hour Power List put her at Number 6 on the list.
Cleo Watson served in 10 Downing Street as Theresa May’s political adviser then Boris Johnson’s co-deputy chief of staff. She joins Anita to talk about her novel, Whips, which follows three young politicos trying to make a life for themselves in Westminster. It's got scandal, sisterhood and a lot of sex! But just how much of it is based on Cleo's own time behind the most famous black door in the UK?
Let’s Eat Grandma are an electro-pop duo composed of best friends Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth. They used to write together in Rosa’s family home in Norwich and made their first song together aged just 10. Three albums later, including one which was nominated for an Ivor Novello award, they are soon to be performing at Meltdown Festival in London. They join Nuala in the studio to discuss their career, friendship and perform a song from their latest album ‘Two Ribbons’.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Gayl Gordon and Michael Millham
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:05.3 | Due to rights reasons, we've had to remove the performance from this podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:15.3 | We've all heard the terribly sad news that Tina Turner has died. |
| 0:19.3 | These words are sometimes overused but for Tina they are fully appropriate. |
| 0:23.3 | Icon Legend Warrior Goddess. |
| 0:27.4 | We'll be hearing about her extraordinary life shortly but this morning I would like to hear |
| 0:31.8 | from you about your Tina moments. |
| 0:34.5 | Whether you were lucky enough to meet her or see her live or you've watched the musical, |
| 0:39.2 | what she meant to you. |
| 0:40.6 | Or if like Tina you've overcome a difficult situation in your life to become the person |
| 0:45.5 | you've always wanted to be. |
| 0:47.1 | I would like to hear from you this morning getting in touch in the usual way. |
| 0:50.6 | Text number 84844, you can WhatsApp me or voice note me on 03-704-444. |
| 0:58.0 | You can send me an email through our website or you can contact us via social media |
| 1:02.7 | as at BBC Woman's Hour. |
| 1:04.4 | So I'd love to hear from you about your Tina moments. |
| 1:06.8 | Christine has already been in touch via email to say, |
| 1:09.7 | I admired her unique great talent, tenacity and hard work in overcoming her poor, |
| 1:14.4 | deprived background to aspire and be simply the best. |
| 1:17.7 | A truly great, inspirational woman for women, men, everyone regardless of colour and background. |
| 1:24.2 | So your Tina moments getting in touch with me about those. |
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