When Meghan and Harry met Oprah; Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release; Clemency Burton Hill’s return to the airwaves.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Oprah Winfrey’s interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was broadcast last night on CBS in the US. It is due to air here in the UK tonight on ITV at 9pm. What might be the repercussions of the interview with the two former working Royals? Emma talks to Jennie Bond who was the BBC’s royal correspondent for 14 years and Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, activist, lawyer and author of This is Why I Resist.

The broadcaster Clemency Burton Hill tells us about a special one off episode of the Classical Fix podcast celebrating women composers that she recorded with Emma Barnett as part of International Women's Day.

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been released from house arrest, but faces fresh charges next weekend. Nazanin was detained in Tehran in 2016, and sentenced to five years in prison for plotting to overthrow the Iranian government, which she has always denied. We hear the latest on her situation, from Richard Ratcliffe and Faranak Amidi, BBC World Service's Women's Affairs journalist.

A new charity is being launched called MOCRA or ‘Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape and Abuse' which aims to provide support and advice to women and girls who become pregnant from rape, sexual abuse, exploitation, trafficking and incest. They also want to provide services for children who find that they were conceived in acts of rape and sexual violence against their mothers. Founded by Dr Jessica Taylor, she joins Emma to discuss why her charity will fill a gap in services.

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. Women's Day, every single day and has been for the last 75 years. Women telling
0:54.9	their story in their own words. Coming up today on Women's Hour we catch up
0:59.4	with one woman relearning to speak, the broadcaster Clement C. Burton Hill who lost the ability to talk a year ago
1:05.6	after a major brain bleed. After our conversation went viral in January about that struggle,
1:11.5	we hear about the next mountain in Clemie's struggle. We hear about the next mountain in Clemy's sites. The
1:14.9	latest on the British Iranian charity worker Nazanine Zagari Ratcliffe facing
1:19.2	new charges in Iran as fears mount about her being used as an international pawn and a new charity
1:24.6	looking to help support women and girls who become pregnant from rape and those
1:29.0	children conceived through sexual abuse. But first talking of women sharing their story in their
1:35.2	own words, it's been described as the interview that's blown the lid off the
1:39.3	royal family. The Duchess of Sussex in an emotional no-hold-barred interview with the Queen of daytime TV,
1:45.6	Oprah Winfrey, has revealed that she found life within the British royal family so difficult
1:50.8	that at times she didn't want to be alive anymore. In a deeply
1:54.8	personal conversation Megan told Oprah Winfrey that she did not get help when she
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