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Woman's Hour Power List: Farhana Yamin, Jo Whitfield CEO Co-op Food, Chila Kumari Burman

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The idea of reaching net-zero emissions is mentioned so often, it’s easy to forget that someone came up with it. That someone is Farhana Yamin – a world-class environmental lawyer, expert in international climate negotiations and number 2 on this year’s Woman’s Hour Power List. Jane Garvey talks to Farhana about her fascinating career.

She’s the first woman to run a leading British grocery retailer, we speak to Jo Whitfield, who is CEO of Co-Op Food. She joins Jane to talk about how food retailers have responded to the pandemic, the safety of her workers, her rise to the top and her women’s network Grocery Girls.

Chila Kumari Singh Burman has created a new installation for Tate Britain’s annual Winter Commission, unveiled in time for Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Chila is celebrated for her interdisciplinary practice which spans printmaking, painting, installation and film. In her work she draws on her Punjabi heritage, her Liverpudlian childhood – her father owned an ice cream van - and her feminist perspectives. She describes her work as “high art meeting popular culture”.

Actress Jane Seymour, who celebrates her seventieth next year, recently wrote that she refused to cut her trade mark long hair going against the received wisdom that you need to think about shorter styles as you age. Jane Garvey talks about the dos and don’ts of hair care as you get older with Alyson Walsh a fashion journalist who writes for The Telegraph and runs her own blog site That’s Not My Age and also to the hair stylist Ashley Gaunt who works at Stephen Carey Hair in Mayfair, London.

Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

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poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

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If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

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Hi, this is Jane Garvey. It's the Women's Hour Podcast from the 17th of

0:45.8

November 2020. Hi there good morning. Welcome to the program. If you're an

0:50.4

older woman, how is your hair looking? Do you keep it long?

0:54.8

Or are you somebody who thinks, actually it's time I went short and got a crop?

1:00.0

We're talking about this this morning because the actress Jane Seymour has been talking

1:04.9

about her own views on this. She says I've kept my hair long all my life and I'm

1:09.3

aware that this is for some reason considered a statement at nearly 70. She says it's not a

1:15.0

statement long hair just suits me and always has. Your thoughts on that

1:20.8

welcome are going to talk to a top hairdresser and to somebody who

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writes about these issues on the program a little bit later.

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At BBC Woman's Hour on social media if you want to get involved.

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We also have the visual artist Shyla Kumari Singh Berman with us this morning.

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Her work is currently on display at Tate Britain. It's bright, it's colourful, it will cheer you up.

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Shyla's a scousa.

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