Weekend Woman's Hour: Anne-Marie, Princess Diana, The forgotten history of women slaves
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The popstar Anne-Marie is famous for songs such as 2002, Ciao adios & Clean Bandit’s Rockabye. She talks to us about lockdown and her new documentary on You Tube ‘How to Be Anne Marie.
We discuss the sculpture by Maggi Hambling celebrating the ‘mother of feminism’ Mary Wollstonecraft, which went on display on Newington Green, Islington in London on Tuesday. Reporter Melanie Abbott is in Newington Green where she’s been talking to visitors to the sculpture, and art historian and critic Ruth Millington.
Princess Diana’s best friend Rosa Monckton gives us her thoughts on the new ITV documentary The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess.
The author and academic Stella Dadzie talks about her new book, A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery & Resistance, she reveals the largely untold stories of women of African descent who, caught up in the horrors of over 400 years of slavery, were transported across the Atlantic to the sugar plantations of Jamaica and beyond.
Betty Cook talks about her friendship with Anne Scargill who she met at the beginning of the miners' strike in 1984. She tells us why she helped create the Women Against Pit Closures movement with Anne and discusses their book Anne and Betty: United by the Struggle. with Ian Clayton who helped gather the material for it.
Presented by: Jane Garvey Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Beverley Purcell
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, good afternoon. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:45.0 | Now this week we'll take a closer look at the much talked about Wollstonecraft statue. |
| 0:50.3 | You can hear from Rosa Monckton, one of Princess Diana's closest friends, on her reaction to the latest |
| 0:56.1 | documentary about her 25 years on, and we'll hear why women like Betty Cook, who called herself |
| 1:02.2 | an unassuming housewife, why she decided to join the |
| 1:05.8 | Women Against Pit Closures Movement. |
| 1:08.6 | I cried a lot during 72 and 74, but when we came into 84 I recognize that the strike was going to be a long |
| 1:17.5 | strike and I determined that I wasn't going to sit and cry I was going to get up and I was going to get involved. |
| 1:25.0 | More from Betty Cook later and we also chat to Anne Marie, the singer and pop star. |
| 1:30.0 | And we've got the author and academic Stella Dadsie on the resourcefulness of the women |
| 1:35.5 | who found themselves enslaved. |
| 1:38.0 | My efforts to ameliorate conditions for enslaved black women, the birth rate continued to plummet and it's only |
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