Weekend Woman's Hour: Women and Artificial Intelligence, Paralympian Stef Reid & Comedian London Hughes

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The writer Jeanette Winterson tells us why women need to be at the heart of the Artificial Intelligence revolution and about her new essay collection which covers 200 years of women and science.

The British stand-up comic, writer and actor London Hughes tells us about making it big in America and the difficulties of dating during a pandemic.

The singer-songwriter, Josie Proto, tells us about her frustration towards the extreme measures women feel they need to take in order to simply get home safely. She performs the new song it has inspired ‘I Just Wanna Walk Home’.

We hear why the government’s new violence against women and girls strategy ignores the needs of black and minoritised women. We hear from Ngozi Fulani, the founder and director of Sistah Space, a small charity that offers specialist support for African & Caribbean heritage women affected by abuse and from Professor Aisha Gill, an expert criminologist working on violence against women and girls in Black and minoritised communities for over 20 years.

Helen Thorne, the other half of the Scrummy Mummies duo, tells us about finding out about her husband’s infidelity during lockdown and finding happiness after divorce.

And the paralympian Stef Reid will represent Team GB in Tokyo next month in the long jump. She tells us how sport helped shape her sense of self and why she’s working to encourage girls to take up sport and stick with it.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Kirsty Starkey

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to
0:07.7	Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's
0:12.6	Hour. What a fine selection of choice cuts I have for you today. We'll talk all
0:16.9	things artificial intelligence with Jeanette Winterson, have some music and
0:21.3	chat with Josie Proto, and discuss why some organisations like Cyster Space, a
0:26.7	charity that offers specialist support for African and Caribbean heritage
0:30.3	women affected by abuse, think the government's new violence against women and
0:34.3	girls' strategy just doesn't go far enough. We find that a lot of black women are
0:39.0	going to housing, to police, to even violence against women and girls and not
0:44.7	getting supported. There is this feeling that African heritage women are strong
0:50.1	and not in need of support and so we're not getting the service that we need.
0:55.0	The Paralympian Steph Reed explains how sport was vital in helping her find a sense
0:59.9	of herself after her leg was amputated. It helped me to just like my body again and
1:05.5	like who I was and also help me build up that confidence and even though I
1:09.4	went into sport not very good, I knew well okay fine, I wasn't great today but
1:14.0	I'll come back tomorrow and I'll be better. All that and Helen Thorne navigating
1:18.4	us through divorce and London Hughes has a very frank and funny chat about
1:22.6	discussing her sex life on stage and moving to America. But first,
1:27.6	Jeanette Winterson's latest book is all about artificial intelligence or AI.
1:33.2	She says women were at the start of this scientific revolution more than
1:37.2	250 years ago and she wants them to be taking a central role as this
1:41.6	technology becomes a reality. The book's called 12 Bites, how we got here,
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