Weekend Woman's Hour: Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Sean O'Neill on his late daughter's ME

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Part of our exclusive Woman’s Hour interview with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. She reveals the full story of her imprisonment in Iran to Emma Barnett. Nazanin explains how she survived solitary confinement, how the love of her daughter kept her alive. Anita Rani speaks to documentary photographer Joanne Coates about her exhibition and book 'Daughters of the Soil' looking at the role of women in farming; a culmination of a year’s research where she explored the role of women in agriculture in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. We also speak to arable farmer, Christina Willet, who farms with her son in Essex. This month, the health secretary announced a new plan to tackle ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in England. A listen back to our interview with Sean O’Neill, a senior writer for the Times, whose eldest daughter Maeve, passed away last October at the age of 27, after suffering from ME since she was a teenager. A recent landmark report called ‘Broken Ladders’ has revealed 75% of women of colour have experienced racism at work, 27% having suffered racial slurs and 61% report changing themselves to fit in. Produced by the Fawcett Society and the Runnymede Trust, ‘Broken Ladders’ explores and documents the experiences of 2,000 women of colour in workplaces across the UK, showing the entrenched racism that women of colour endure throughout their careers. Zaimal Azad, senior campaigns officer at the Fawcett Society spoke to Jessica Creighton. We speak to and hear a live performance from Amara Okereke who has taken on the role of a life time as Eliza Dpolittle in My Fair Lady. Amara, who is 25 has been called 'the new face of British theatre' and has been performing at The Coliseum in London. Producer: Surya Elango Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:06.0	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. I'm Anita Rani and this is a show where we
0:10.6	offer you some of the best bits and must-hate interviews from across the week just gone.
0:15.4	In today's programme, we hear an emotional conversation between the journalist Sean O'Neill
0:19.8	and Emma about understanding my logic and cephalitis or ME after losing his daughter Maeve
0:25.8	last year who'd suffered from it since she was a teenager. Then a trip to the countryside
0:30.3	we hear about the lives and stories of women involved in all aspects of farming. We take
0:34.4	a look at broken ladders, the name of a recent report from the Forza Society which found
0:39.3	that 75% of women of colour have experienced racism at work and finally Amara Ocarreque
0:45.5	on landing the role of a lifetime Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. But first, Nazanine Sagarri
0:51.7	Rackliff. In the early hours of Wednesday, the 17th of March this year, a woman known
0:56.3	to the world simply by her first name walked down the steps of a plane at RAF Bryzenauten
1:01.5	in Oxfordshire and was reunited with her husband and daughter all together for the first
1:07.3	time in six years. Nazanine Sagarri Rackliff was detained in Iran in April 2016, accused
1:14.4	of plotting to topple the government there, something she has always refuted as strongly
1:19.1	as she could, stressing that she was in Iran on holiday visiting her parents, separated
1:24.1	from her young child while she was still breastfeeding, she was subjected to interrogation
1:28.8	and solitary confinement. Meanwhile, here in the UK and around the world, hers quickly
1:34.1	became a household name because her husband made it his mission to never let her be forgotten,
1:40.9	despite being advised to keep quiet to let diplomats do their work behind closed doors.
1:46.1	Then, as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson made this remark about her in 2017.
1:53.1	In the end, it was Liz Truss as Foreign Secretary, the fifth imposter in Nazanine's detention,
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