Weekend Woman's Hour: Dame Kelly Holmes, justice secretary Alex Chalk, history of eyeliner
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes spoke publicly about her sexuality for the first time last year. Her new memoir, Unique, details how serving in the military in the late 1980s - when it was illegal to be gay in the military – was a major factor in contributing to her decades-long silence. She joins us to speak about her experience.
After a reshuffle that left the government with no women in the “big four” offices of state, we speak to Justice Secretary Alex Chalk about the impact of the reshuffle as well as sentencing reforms which will affect women.
From Nefertiti to Amy Winehouse, what is the personal and political power of eyeliner? We discuss with Zahra Hankir, author of Eyeliner: A Cultural History.
Tish Murtha is a celebrated photographer whose images of working-class life in North East England can be found in the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain. But in her lifetime, Murtha struggled to find work of any kind. Now her daughter, Ella, has made a film about Murtha’s life and work. We speak to Ella and producer of the documentary, Jen Corcoran.
How is our interaction with AI shifting our concepts of intimacy and sexuality as humans? We discuss with Kate Devlin, Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society at King's College London, and to Trudy Barber, Senior Lecturer at Portsmouth University in Media Studies.
In April 2020, Debenhams in Ireland closed all 11 of its stores, informing its staff they had been let go in the process. What ensued were pickets and protests across Ireland that lasted for 406 days. As a new film is released on the subject, we're joined by two women who were involved, Carol Ann Bridgeman and Jane Crowe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service. |
| 0:04.7 | Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests. |
| 0:08.8 | Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook. |
| 0:11.2 | Technology doesn't want to be good or bad. |
| 0:15.0 | It's in the hands of the creator. |
| 0:16.7 | It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing. |
| 0:26.0 | Julie, at your service. |
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| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour where we bring you the highlights from the week just gone. |
| 0:36.0 | Coming up, following this week's cabinet reshuffle, there are now no women in the four great offices of state. |
| 0:42.0 | We ask the Justice Secretary why. |
| 0:45.0 | How will Sexpots and AI generated pornography affect the future of sex and intimacy? |
| 0:50.0 | Two academics share their findings and the personal and political power of the humble |
| 0:56.3 | eyeliner. |
| 0:57.6 | But first, last Friday, Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes made her first red carpet appearance with her girlfriend |
| 1:04.4 | Lou Cullen after speaking publicly about her sexuality for the first time in June last year. |
| 1:10.1 | One of this country's most decorated athletes having won seven gold, eight silver and |
| 1:15.6 | four bronze Olympic Commonwealth and European medals throughout her athletic career, |
| 1:19.9 | she's now published a memoir, Unique. In it, she tells her experience of serving in the |
| 1:25.8 | Army in the late 80s when it was illegal to be gay in the armed forces, a position |
| 1:30.7 | that held until as recently as the year 2000. |
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