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Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Poet and playwright Caroline Bird aims to tell us all about her as her new work Red Ellen goes on tour. Yesterday Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faced a room of journalists and cameras. She knew what she wanted to say, and what she didn't want to say after six years away from home. Despite the trauma she's been through why do some people feel she needs to express more gratitude? What are their reasons? And how surprising is it to see these comments? We hear from Gina Miller who took the Government to court - and won - over how it tried to implemented Brexit without approval from Parliament. Emily Thornberry a former Shadow Foreign Secretary. With millions experiencing food insecurity in Afghanistan what impact does this have on women’s rights? Emma speaks to Mary-Ellen McGroarty, director of the United Nations World Food Programme in Afghanistan. Are you someone who can’t help but pick up a gossip magazine? Do you love nothing more than finding out about the latest celebrity break up? Chartered clinical psychologist Dr Hamira Riaz; and Dr Aisha K. Gill, Professor of Criminology at the University of Roehampton discuss why do we do it and whether it's good for us to watch relationships breakdown in public. And the study from Cardiff University that suggests that hybrid working may encourage more women to take up local politics. Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

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

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On today's show, after that incredible press conference with Nazanine Sagarri Ratcliffe

0:14.4

yesterday afternoon, the first time she spoke and publicly since being freed after six long

0:19.2

years to come home to her husband and daughter from Iran, the word ungrateful started trending

0:25.5

on Twitter after she expressed her opinion on why it took so long to bring her home and

0:31.1

questioned it.

0:32.1

Today I want to ask you, why do you think some people feel uncomfortable with her speaking

0:37.3

her mind?

0:38.3

We'll come to that next, but already some of you have been getting in touch on social

0:41.3

media this morning.

0:42.3

Please do join in if you care to.

0:44.3

We are at BBC Woman's Hour.

0:45.9

You can text me here at Woman's Hour, of course, if that's your choice.

0:48.5

84844 text will be charged to your standard message rate or email me through the Woman's

0:53.5

Hour website.

0:54.5

Also, on today's programme, the Woman in Charge of running the United Nations World Food

0:58.8

programme in Afghanistan, speaks to us from Kabul, how toxic celebrity breakups affect

1:04.6

us, the audience, and a small silver lining of the pandemic.

1:10.2

But first, yesterday Nazanine Sagarri Ratcliffe faced a room of journalists and cameras.

1:15.6

She knew what she wanted to say and what she didn't after six years away from home.

1:20.8

She didn't want to talk about her experience in prison, in solitary confinement, her

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