Weekend Woman’s Hour: Rhianon Bragg, Businesswoman and entrepreneur Emma Grede, Amelia Earhart’s legacy
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Rhianon Bragg was held hostage at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend, Gareth Wyn Jones, for eight hours. He was sentenced in 2020 for stalking, false imprisonment, making threats to kill and possession of a firearm. Now, despite a parole board panel saying they are not satisfied it would be safe, he is being released from prison. Rhianon tells us about how her relationship with Wyn Jones developed, what happened at the end, and how she feels about him coming out of prison.
Ambika Mod stars as Emma in the new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’ much-loved novel One Day. She acts opposite Leo Woodall as Dex, and their comedic romance plays out over 14 episodes and 20 years. You may have seen Ambika as Shruti, the junior doctor with a pivotal plot line in the BBC labour ward drama This is Going to Hurt. She tells us about taking on this lead role.
On Thursday Kate Garraway returned to Good Morning Britain following the death of her husband, Derek. She spoke about her reaction to being called a widow for the first time, by a delivery man, apologising for her loss. We hear from Poorna Bell, a journalist and author who lost her husband in 2015, and Karen Sutton, host of The Widow Podcast, who became a trained grief coach after her husband died in 2016.
New sonar images from deep in the Pacific Ocean might have located the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. Has Earhart’s disappearance finally been solved, or has the obsession with this mystery distracted us from the pioneering woman herself? Pilot Katherine Moloney and historian Dr Darren Reid discuss Amelia Earhart, her legacy, and women in aviation today.
Emma Grede, a native East Londoner, now a thriving businesswoman in the US, is known for her entrepreneurial prowess and successful collaborations with the Kardashian sisters. Emma is a driving force behind iconic brands like Good American and Skims. She will soon be making her mark as a guest investor on an upcoming episode of BBC’s Dragon's Den.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Ronson and I'm an invisible enemy. |
| 0:05.0 | That changed people psychologically. |
| 0:08.0 | Words can be dangerous if you don't know the context. |
| 0:12.0 | We were told to stay at home. |
| 0:15.0 | We lived with an invisible enemy, |
| 0:17.0 | with only the internet for company. |
| 0:19.0 | That changed people psychologically. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm John Ronson, and I'll be unerthing the roots of the |
| 0:24.4 | culture wars that engulfed us then and still do now. |
| 0:29.2 | The award-winning podcast, Things Fell Apart Returns. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello and welcome to Weekend Women's Hour with me Anita Rani, where we bring you the highlights of the week just gone. |
| 0:51.0 | On the program today, we'll hear one woman's story of being stalked, |
| 0:55.9 | threatened and held at gunpoint by an ex-boyfriend when she ended their relationship in 2019. |
| 1:02.4 | Ryan and Bragg explains why she's telling her story now. |
| 1:06.0 | Also, on become odd on taking on the lead role of Emma in the new Netflix adaptation of David Nichols' |
| 1:12.4 | much-love novel one day and why she nearly turned down the role |
| 1:16.2 | because she was feeling tired. I was tired. This is going to come out like that was a |
| 1:20.3 | very overwhelming experience for me. No one ever really prepares you for, especially when people really take to a show |
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