4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:04.8 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. I'm Andrea Catherwood. |
0:08.7 | This is the show where we offer you some of the best and must-hear interviews from across the week. |
0:14.5 | In today's programme, we explore no fault divorce. |
0:18.1 | The biggest reform of divorce law for 50 years comes into force, |
0:22.2 | changing a law that dates back to Henry VIII. |
0:25.2 | We meet one listener Helen, who called into our phone in programme on Wednesday. |
0:30.4 | You'll hear from Ellie Simmons, the Paralympic five-time gold medalist, |
0:34.6 | on her new BBC documentary, A World Without Dwarfism, |
0:38.4 | exploring the question that if cutting edge medicine can stop disability in its tracks, |
0:43.7 | should we embrace it? |
0:45.4 | In light of this week's news dominated by distressing pictures of dead bodies |
0:49.4 | in the streets of Butcher, not far from Kiev in Ukraine, |
0:53.0 | we discuss the use of rape and sexual assault as a weapon of war, |
0:57.6 | with Dr. Yelka Bostin, a Professor of Gender and Development from King's College London. |
1:03.6 | We also meet Sarah Wohidi, an Afghan tech entrepreneur, |
1:06.8 | and I live in America. |
1:08.3 | In 2020, she created an app which delivers real-time security power |
1:12.6 | and traffic alerts to Kabul. |
1:14.6 | Now, she's turning her attention to helping Afghan girls access education through their phones. |
1:21.1 | And finally, we hear from Sarah Hawkins, one of the 100 people who this week |
1:26.2 | wrote to the Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajja Javid, |
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