Women in Sudan, Game of Thrones, Nurse Molly Case, Top Girls
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Good afternoon, happy Easter and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour. |
| 0:08.3 | This week, trying to live a more environmentally friendly life, isn't entirely straightforward, |
| 0:14.2 | we'll have what we hope is some good advice for you on the programme this afternoon. |
| 0:18.1 | And we'll also look at women's role in the fight for change in the Sudan. |
| 0:21.8 | They led this demonstration, but they still led, again, this is a really conservative |
| 0:27.2 | culture, so I can't understate what it means to be at the demo site at 2 in the morning |
| 0:32.5 | and have young unmarried women manning the barricades. |
| 0:36.4 | It's really amazing. |
| 0:38.4 | Also on the programme today, some enthusiastic fans of Game of Thrones attempt to sell me the |
| 0:44.2 | show. |
| 0:45.2 | I cosplayed Egrit, Jon Snow's girlfriend, and she's been dead in the show for quite a few |
| 0:50.7 | seasons now, so she's less popular. |
| 0:53.3 | And now I do Yara Greyjoy instead, because she's still alive, hopefully. |
| 0:58.6 | To be fair, you can never be entirely certain how long people are going to last on Game |
| 1:02.0 | of Thrones, but that was the view of one of the participants on Women's Hour this week, |
| 1:06.2 | who really, as you can tell from that clip, a fully paid up fan of Game of Thrones, which |
| 1:11.2 | came back this week to much media for Aure, as I'm sure you're only too well aware. |
| 1:16.2 | So more on that in this edition of Weekend Woman's Hour. |
| 1:19.3 | But we start with 2013, and the height of the scandal around failures by mid-staffed |
| 1:24.4 | her NHS Hospital Trust, and the ensuing Francis report. |
| 1:29.0 | A young nurse at the Royal College of Nursing Congress read out a poem that she written. |
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