Women reporting the war in Ukraine, SEND consultation, Red Dress project, former Olympic Athlete, Anyika Onuora

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Her newspaper only launched 14 weeks before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, but the Kyiv Independent now has over two million followers on Twitter, and has been described by Time Magazine as: "The world's primary source for reliable English-language journalism on the war." Emma speaks to the Editor of the newspaper, Olga Rudenko about the challenges female journalists are facing in Ukraine. She also discusses how her and her team, which are mostly women, launched their newspaper just weeks after being fired from their previous newspaper that was owned by an oligarch. In a Woman's hour exclusive, two women whose disabled sons died after failing to get their Special Educational Needs supported in the right schools, have written an open Letter to two Secretaries of State warning that the system must change. Ministers are consulting until July 22 on how to make the SEND system better. Our reporter Carolyn Atkinson tells us more, and Emma speaks with Amanda Batten, chair of the Disabled Children’s Partnership and Susie who spent £10,000 battling the system to get her disabled child into an appropriate school. Since 2009, the artist Kirstie Macleod has been working on The Red Dress project. This involves pieces of this red silk dress travelling around the world to be embroidered by mostly female artisans, many of whom have been marginalised and live in poverty. After 13 years, 46 countries and 343 embroiderers, the dress is finally finished. And, former Olympic Athlete Aniyka Onuora may have stepped away from the track, but in her new memoir: "My hidden race" she details her personal experience with professional sports, racism and sexism, mental health, and growing up in a Nigerian household in 1990’s Liverpool. She joins Emma in the studio.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.2	Good morning and welcome to the programme. In a moment we will hear from a woman who has
0:15.2	achieved with her largely female team something incredible, setting out one of the newest
0:20.2	and most trusted English news services from Ukraine and mere 14 weeks as it would transpire
0:26.7	before Russia invaded the country and war began. In fact, Olga Ridenko, the founder, is
0:33.0	in the UK right now speaking as part of a business founders event to fellow start-up entrepreneurs.
0:39.0	They didn't, in her case, design their team to be female. It just sort of happened as
0:42.9	you'll hear. But I did want to take the opportunity today to ask you about the business start-ups
0:47.8	in your life, or the enterprises or the groups that you have created. What are they?
0:52.8	What inspired them? Why did you set up your business or organisation? What was the timing
0:58.0	like? So much of it can come to that and what prompted you to actually do it? Perhaps you're
1:03.4	toiling on it right now, listening to this programme. Do get in touch if that's the case.
1:08.6	Tell me what you've set up and why and there's really the story if you can behind it and
1:13.6	how it's been going it alone or working with others on a project that you've had a vision
1:18.6	for. 84844 is the number you need to text me here at Women's Out on social media or at
1:23.9	BBC Women's Out or get in touch, you can email us through our website and I should say
1:28.8	those texts will be charged at your standard message rate. Also, on today's programme, we
1:34.2	hear about the two mothers trying to change the special educational needs school system
1:39.6	after the deaths of their children. A red dress that has been made by women around
1:45.0	the world and will hear the story that it's trying to tell. And Anika Onora, the retired
1:50.7	sprint track and field British Olympic medal-winning athlete, will be joining me in the studio
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