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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Olympics preview, Holocaust documentary, Poet Zara Sehar, Sculptor Dominique White, Comedian Sashi Perera

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Paris 2024 Olympics start this evening with the opening ceremony. It's the first time an equal number of men and women will compete in a summer Games. To discuss the sportswomen you should keep an eye out for, Anita Rani is joined by Jeanette Kwakye, a former Olympian herself and now BBC pundit, and also BBC Sport reporter Laura Scott.

A new film, The Commandant’s Shadow, follows Hans Jürgen Höss, the 87-year-old son of Rudolf Höss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz who masterminded the murder of more than a million Jews. While Hans enjoyed a happy childhood playing with many toys in the family villa, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch played cello in the orchestra to survive the notorious concentration camp. Eight decades later, the two come face-to-face, together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch. Anita and Maya join Nuala to tell their story.

Zara Sehar recently won the audience vote at the Roundhouse Poetry Slam competition, and joins Anita to talk about her work and perform from one of her poems, (Hon)our Killings. In it she mentions spoons in knickers, a tactic suggested to young girls being taken out of the country who are at airports and at risk of forced marriage. Natasha Rattu, Executive Director at Karma Nirvana explains why they give this advice to British-Asian girls.

The sculptor Dominique White has a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. It is four large sculptures made of iron, driftwood and detritus from the sea, lit in such a way to suggest that you are submerged, or looking at a shipwreck on the seabed. It was created during Dominique’s six-month residency in Italy, the time granted to her when she won the Max Mara art prize for women in 2023.

Former refugee lawyer turned comedian Sashi Perera joins Nuala to discuss who we choose as our emergency contacts and her new stand-up show, Boundaries.

When is it socially acceptable to bring your partner to hang out with your friends? According to academic and writer Kate Lister the answer is never. In her recent i Paper column, Kate explains that the presence of a partner alters the dynamic, and that friendships ought to be safe havens from romantic relationships. While some couples prefer to socialise together, Kate argues that time and effort should be invested into individual friendships. Kate joins Nuala for a frank discussion on the murky friendship politics of bringing your partner to lunch.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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He hunted at night terrorizing his victims.

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He would appear in the dark.

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Every single one of his victims was black.

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He was a kill.

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People were desperate and nobody knew where he was.

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But despite his shocking death toll, he only served 12 years in jail.

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The families of his victims want justice.

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The whole scale of it, it's mesmerizing.

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And now he's ready to talk world of secrets the

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apartheid killer listen on BBC sounds

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Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

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Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me Anita Rani.

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As the 2024 Olympics begins in Paris and it's the first time an equal number of men and

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women will compete in a summer games,

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what sports women should we be keeping an eye out for?

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Former Olympian Jeanette Guache and now BBC pundit

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will be telling us.

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And Performance Poet Zara Sahair on how her work focuses on her experience as a British Asian woman and why one of her poems is inspired by her taxi driver dad.

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It was something that was unspoken at home and also in the

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taxi as well being dropped off to school and having other kids sort of looked down upon working class culture which looking back and in the

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poem I said that's what put food on the table that's what got me to uni that's what got

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