Ukraine children, Director of Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock, The implications of a new AI study on the brain
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week marks two years since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine's government says it has identified 20,000 children who have been abducted by Russian forces. Now Qatar has brokered the third and largest deal, which will see eleven Ukrainian children reunited with their families. Emma speaks to the BBC’s Hague Correspondent, Anna Holligan and film maker Shahida Tulaganova, who directed the ITV documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children.
Wicked Little Letters is a new black comedy film set in Littlehampton in the 1920s. It follows two neighbours, deeply conservative Edith Swan played by Olivia Colman and rowdy Irish single mother Rose Gooding played by Jessie Buckley. When Edith and other residents begin to receive poisonous pen letters full of obscenities, potty mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The director, Thea Sharrock, joins Emma.
A new scientific paper from researchers at Stanford University using AI has shown the ability to spot consistent differences between men and women's brains. Gina Rippon, neuroscientist and author of The Gendered Brain & Professor Melissa Hines, director of the Gender Development Research Centre at the University of Cambridge join Emma.
How much do you know about your female ancestors? There’s a growing trend in finding out more about our family histories – but it’s harder to find details about women than men. Founder and director of the genealogy service Eneclann, Fiona Fitzsimons and Ailsa Burkimsher who successfully campaigned for mothers' names to be on marriage certificates join Emma.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:50.0 | Good morning and welcome to the programme, or Wednesday as I'm describing it |
| 0:54.8 | it's tipping it down in central London here it's enough to make you swear don't |
| 0:59.3 | worry I only do that offer but it's in my mind this morning because of this glorious |
| 1:03.9 | clip of the actor Olivia Coleman that's doing the rounds on social media. |
| 1:07.2 | She's being interviewed and is asked for her favorite swear word, which it won't |
| 1:11.5 | surprise you, I can't play out but then justifies her |
| 1:14.8 | choice brilliantly. It's the best one and it's Chaucer wrote it down so anyone |
| 1:21.3 | who's a little bit precious about it, it's very cultured. |
| 1:25.0 | It's very cultured. |
| 1:26.6 | If in doubt, quote Chaucer, perhaps you'll be able to guess it from that. |
| 1:31.2 | She's promoting her new film at the moment wicked little letters |
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