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Woman's Hour

Ukrainian MPs, Women Surgeons, Remember Monday

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We speak to 3 MPs who are members of the Women’s Diplomatic Battalion of Ukraine. They are Olena Khomenko, Mariia Mezentseva and Alona Shkrum. They're all about shuttle diplomacy, pressing their case for international help. Coverage of the Oscars has been dominated by Will Smith's punch in defence of his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Nimco Ali, Independent Government Adviser on Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls and comedian, Shapi Korsandi give us their reaction, and discuss the messages a punch sends out. Women make up more than half of all medical students but far less that that go on to work as surgeons. Researchers from King’s College London found that just 16 per cent of consultants and 34 per cent of registrars working across 10 surgical specialities are female. Roshana Mehdian-Staffell is a surgeon working in Trauma and Orthopaedics and speaks to Emma about the difficulties of going up the career ladder if you're a female surgeon. We speak to the country-pop trio Remember Monday who are making a splash on Tik-Tok. Holly-Anne Hull, Lauren Byrne, and Charlotte Steele first met as sixth formers and bonded over John Mayer and harmonies. Now they’ve been singing together for a whole decade. They discuss why they sing in multi-story car parks, juggling their own careers alongside the band, and how their friendship has kept them together over the years.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.8

Nevermind, Will Smith winning an Oscar, excuse me, I should say, for best actor, it's his

0:14.6

real-life performance slapping the comedian Chris Rock on stage at the awards that's garnered

0:18.8

the most attention.

0:20.1

The reason?

0:21.1

He was defending his wife after the comedian made a joke about her, the fellow actor,

0:26.1

made a pink at Smith, take my wife's name out of your mouth, he yelled at Rock twice

0:31.3

with an expletive I'm not going to repeat.

0:33.6

Will Smith then apologise in his acceptance speech and defended his actions, saying,

0:38.0

I'm being called on in my life to love people and to protect people.

0:42.2

And he went on to add,

0:43.4

Art imitates life, I looked like the crazy father just like they said, but love will make

0:48.5

you do crazy things.

0:50.8

What do you make of this action?

0:52.2

What do you make of the assault?

0:53.9

Husbands protecting wives, has a partner, man or woman ever done something like that

0:58.7

for you?

0:59.7

What was your reaction to that?

1:01.4

I'll be it probably not at the Oscars, I should say right now police are not involved

1:05.2

as it's being reported Chris Rock isn't pressing any charges, but what is your take?

1:10.3

Defending a woman's honour is how it's been billed a wife's honour by Will Smith.

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