Weekend Woman’s Hour: We are Lady Parts, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow, Police abuse supercomplaint, Brit rising star Griff
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
A TV comedy series featuring funny and bold Muslim women – ‘We Are Lady Parts’ is a new six part comedy series for Channel 4. It follows the highs and lows of the female punk band Lady Parts. Anita speaks to Anjana Vasan and series writer Nida Manzoor.
The Government has announced a range of measures to protect the environment, from banning peat in garden centres to increasing the rate of tree planting and reversing the loss of species diversity. A 10p charge on single-use plastic bags came into force in England on Friday. But what difference will these policies - and others made in the run-up to COP26 - make to the crisis facing nature and the climate? Emma speaks to Environment Minister Rebecca Pow.
Listener Clementine Baig was diagnosed with Primary Ovarian Insufficiency last year, and got in touch to share her experiences with infertility. She's joined by the Podcaster Noni Martins, whose husband was diagnosed with Male Factor Infertility in 2019, to explore how an infertility diagnosis can impact families, relationships and self-image.
Since a supercomplaint was made last year about domestic abuse by police officers, dozens more women have come forward to say they are affected. The centre for women's justice is still waiting for an outcome to its complaint. But wants the way these cases are dealt with to be drastically changed. We talk to a woman who suffered abuse from her police officer husband.
The terms polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous are increasingly normalised when it comes to relationships and dating. For some people, monogamy just doesn’t work for them. We hear from three people who all describe themselves as non-monogamous.
Twenty year old Griff is the recipient of this year’s prestigious BRITs Rising Star Award, following past winners such as Celeste, Sam Smith and Adele. Griff has also been nominated for an Ivor Novello award and ended 2020 by singing the sound-track for Disney's Christmas advert. She performs a special version of her song Black Hole for Woman’s Hour.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon, welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, the place where you get the best bits |
| 0:04.1 | from the week just gone, and as the programme is now officially an hour, |
| 0:07.9 | my what a lot of choices we had. In a moment, Environment Minister Rebecca Pau, |
| 0:13.2 | and the comedy about a female Muslim punk band, what a satisfying sentence that was to say, |
| 0:19.5 | the reality of telling your mother she's not going to be a grandma, |
| 0:22.8 | and the women pushing the boundaries of relationships. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm dating, both of them and then they're dating, and then we have a relationship |
| 0:29.8 | to the three of us as well. You know, we schedule date nights with each other, |
| 0:33.4 | we schedule date nights with our girlfriend, when schedules allow, which is quite rare, |
| 0:37.6 | to be honest, we try schedule date nights with like the three of us altogether. |
| 0:40.6 | It's the same as monogamy, essentially, it's just not monogamous. |
| 0:45.2 | More later about the experiences of being in a consensual relationship with more than one partner, |
| 0:50.5 | and following in the footsteps of Celeste, Sam Smith and Adele will hear from 20-year-old |
| 0:55.7 | Griff, who's just won the Brit's Rising Star Award. |
| 1:00.0 | But first, it's been a busy week for policies that protect the planet. |
| 1:04.1 | On Tuesday, Environment Secretary George Eustace announced a range of measures, |
| 1:08.4 | including banning the sale of peat to gardeners by 2024, |
| 1:12.0 | a tripling of tree planting, and the creation of a new task force charged with reversing |
| 1:17.2 | the loss of species diversity. And in the week ahead, the much delayed environment bill |
| 1:21.6 | will be discussed in the commons, to fine tune the details of the rules the UK will follow |
| 1:26.0 | now we've left the EU. And as of yesterday, single-use plastic bags in England are now charged |
| 1:31.8 | at 10p. Since they became 5p, there's been a 95% decrease in their use. |
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