Wrestling star Aleah James, Jackie Weaver, Indian farmers, Julia Kogan and nominations for the Golden Globes
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Anita Rani talks to 23 year old wrestler Aleah James who was signed by WWE in the middle of lockdown. Normal try outs involve a rigorous selection process, with over 80 athletes, but Aleah bypassed this and was hired on the exceptional promise she showed.
We hear from Mrs Weaver, Jackie Weaver, star of the parish council zoom row which has gone viral.
Thousands of farmers in India have been protesting against new farming laws in India. As the protests grow women are now said to be increasingly taking a more prominent role. We hear from the BBC's South Asia Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan and from Usha Seethalakshmi from Makaam, a forum for Women's Farmers Rights in India
The writer and opera singer Julia Kogan has just won a high court battle to be credited for her part in writing the script for the Oscar nominated film Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. We talk to her and Dr. Daniela Simone, a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and an expert in copyright and collective authorship.
And Hannah J Davies, the Guardian's Deputy TV Editor and film critic Anna Smith tell us about the Golden Globes Film awards later this month. The shortlist for best director has more women than men for the first time, but there's also been some surprise at who hasn't made it through.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Managers: Duncan Hannant and John Boland.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.3 | Hi everybody, Anita here, welcoming you to today's Woman's Hour podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Morning all, nice to have you join me for Friday's Woman's Hour. |
| 0:13.6 | How are you all coping at the moment? |
| 0:15.8 | It's a tough one this lockdown isn't it? |
| 0:17.6 | Who's feeling the strain? |
| 0:18.9 | Is the pressure getting to you? |
| 0:21.0 | Well, the cracks definitely appeared during this local parish council Zoom meeting. |
| 0:26.8 | Take a listen. |
| 0:27.8 | We'll start the meeting and I want to repeat what I said at the beginning of the last meeting. |
| 0:32.2 | That this meeting has not been called according to the law. |
| 0:36.7 | The law has been broken. |
| 0:38.1 | We've been properly called. |
| 0:39.4 | Please let the chair. |
| 0:41.0 | This is what you've been supposed to do this rough this meeting. |
| 0:44.6 | I will have to remove you from it. |
| 0:46.8 | You can't. |
| 0:48.4 | It's only the chairman who can remove people from a meeting. |
| 0:52.7 | You have no authority here, Jackie Weaver. |
| 0:55.0 | No authority at all. |
| 0:57.0 | If she's kicked him out, she's kicked him out. |
| 1:01.0 | Don't, don't, she's kicked him out. |
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