Weekend Woman's Hour: Emeli Sandé, Abi Morgan, Sophie Willan

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Emeli Sandé is one of Britain’s most successful songwriters - with 19 million singles sold; including three number one singles, six million albums and four BRIT awards. Emeli joins Emma to discuss her music and career. How are disabled children being affected by the war in Ukraine? There are claims that thousands have been forgotten and abandoned in institutions unable to look after them. The human rights organisation, Disability Rights International, has carried out an investigation. Their Ukraine Office Director, Halyna Kurylo joins Emma. ‘Alice’s Book’ by Karina Urbach tells the story of Karina's grandmother Alice Urbach. Before the Second World War Alice wrote a cookbook called Cooking the Viennese Way! - but when books by Jewish authors couldn't be distributed, Alice was taken off it. Karina talks about her family history, intellectual theft by the Nazis and her mission to restore Alice Urbach’s name to her cookbook. Abi Morgan is a BAFTA and Emmy-award winning playwright and screenwriter whose credits include The Iron Lady, Suffragette and The Hour. She has now written her first book - This Is Not A Pity Memoir - about an extraordinarily tumultuous period in her and her family's life. Last weekend the Baftas saw Sophie Willan, the actress and creator of Alma’s Not Normal, take home an award for best female performance in comedy. The sitcom is based on Sophie’s own experience of growing up in care, and focuses on her relationship with the women in her family. Sophie dedicated her win to her grandmother, Denise Willan, who sadly passed away half-way through filming the show. Watching Eurovision tonight? Two hundred million people are expected to watch it, live from Turin. Representing the UK this year is Sam Ryder. He's doing well at the moment and is second favourite to win behind Ukraine. The UK really hasn’t done very well over recent years, but twenty-five years ago we won it with Katrina and The Waves and Love Shine a Light. Katrina joins Anita.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.4	Now we know life can be busy in Hectic so this is your chance to hear all the best and
0:14.6	must-hier interviews from across the week just gone.
0:17.6	Coming up, the extraordinary story behind the award-winning screenwriter Abbey Morgan's
0:22.2	new memoir, we explore the impact of war on vulnerable and disabled children in Ukraine
0:27.8	and Sophie Willen, the creator of Almer's Not Normal on why she dedicated her newly won
0:32.9	BAFTA to her late grandmother. But first, Emily Sande is one of Britain's most successful
0:39.1	songwriters. Her debut album was a bestseller, spending 10 weeks at number one.
0:43.7	Her hit singles include Heaven, Read All About It, and next to me, and she's received
0:48.6	four Brit Awards including Best Female Twice. In 2012, Emily performed in both the opening
0:54.8	and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics and she's performed at the White House.
0:59.6	Now she's back with a new album and single that isn't much. Earlier this week, Emma met Emily
1:05.6	and started by asking about the importance of music in her own life.
1:09.7	You know, music gave me this very magic power when I was younger and allowed me to express myself,
1:16.2	but also to escape in many ways. And I think music has got this incredible power,
1:21.1	you know, to heal us, to lift us and take us somewhere else, even if it's just for three minutes,
1:26.4	but it's... I find music to be this interesting world between Earth and Heaven. It's kind of this
1:32.1	bridge that we have. And I always feel that, you know, melodies come from somewhere else. They come from
1:38.3	a very spiritual realm for me. So music is this kind of in-between land and I love being there.
1:44.8	And you actually have also talked a lot about, you know, your faith and belief as well and trying
1:48.6	to figure that out. Yeah, music's always a spiritual experience for me, whether I'm listening to it,
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