4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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We hear from Sandra Igwe, co-chair of an urgent inquiry set up to investigate how alleged systemic racism in the NHS manifests itself in maternity care and Dr Karen Joash, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at Imperial College.
After the Topshop buyout by online fashion retailer Asos, Topshop worker, and a lifestyle fashion blogger Kirsty Mead tells us what it’s like to pack up one of the shops in Leed for the final time.
Some women in the ultra orthodox Jewish community believe the laws on forced marriage are not serving them adequately and action needs to be taken. We hear from Yehudis Fletcher, the founder of think tank Nahamu and Chaya Spitz, chief executive of the Interlink Foundation, which represents Orthodox organisations.
Nearly a year into the pandemic, all over the UK there has been a push to pass legislation to allow better access to relatives and loved ones in care homes. 23 year old, university student, Lucy Challenor talks During the pandemic her mother and her grandmother have been in care homes with very little access.
Dating expert Charly Lester and film director Richard Kurti talk about Mary Oliver who with her friend Heather Jenner set up the UK's first ever Marriage Bureau in 1939. The book she wrote nearly 80 years ago, the Marriage Bureau, about the successes and failures of her matchmaking business, has just been republished.
LGBT campaigner and co-founder of Stonewall Lisa Power, actor Lydia West and Russell T Davies’ long time friend Jill Nadler discuss his new Channel 4 series It's a Sin and discuss the role women played in the AIDs crisis.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Paula McFarlane Editor: Lucinda Montefiore
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0:31.5 | weekend edition of Woman's Hour, a selection of the finest bits from the week just gone. |
0:36.4 | On the programme today, we hear from three women about forced marriages in the Orthodox Jewish community. |
0:43.0 | Then the Telly everyone's talking about, |
0:45.2 | the Channel 4 series It's a Sin, |
0:47.3 | LGBT campaigner and co-founder of Stonewall Lisa Power, |
0:51.0 | actor Lydia West and Russell T Davis Davis's longtime friend Jill Nadler |
0:55.2 | discuss his new show and the role women played in the AIDS crisis. |
0:58.9 | Actually telling people not to go out and meet people and have sex and stuff like that. |
1:06.4 | There was no way I could stop people doing anything like that. |
1:11.8 | We hear from a campaigner calling on the government in Scotland, public health teams and care |
1:16.5 | homes to let residents have access to their families and from a top shop worker who's packed up the shopping leads for the last time. |
1:24.6 | People don't realize that actually we're not going to be having a closing down say, |
1:28.0 | oh, the top shop is going to be no longer when we come out of lockdown. |
1:31.6 | And I think where our store is based just opposite is Debenems as well which obviously will also be gone so I think the high street |
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