Zeinab Badawi, Singing and periods, How is the debate over abortion shaping the US election?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The broadcaster Zeinab Badawi joins Krupa Padhy to discuss her first book, An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence. The book has taken her seven years to research, travelling across 30 countries. She explains how the female African leaders that shaped their countries have often been written out of history.
At the start of the year, acclaimed opera singer Sophie Bevan took to Twitter to ask if other female singers also had voice struggles around the time of their periods. This led to her discovery of premenstrual vocal syndrome, which is when hormone changes cause vocal issues. She talks about the impact this has had on her career, alongside Dr Alan Watson, specialist in the biology of performance at the University of Cardiff.
Democrats in the US state of Arizona are attempting to repeal a law from 1864 that bans nearly all abortions. Also the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in an Idaho hospital case, on whether hospitals can override state abortion restrictions in order to save a mother’s life. New York Times correspondent Elizabeth Dias explains how abortion rights are shaping this year’s presidential election and which camp could benefit from the abortion debate.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Olivia Skinner
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | Good morning, thank you for being with us. |
| 0:42.0 | It's been 10 months since university students |
| 0:45.5 | Barnaby Weber Grace O'Malley-Kumar and 65-year-old Ian Coates were fatally stabbed |
| 0:51.0 | in Nottingham by Waldo Callocame. |
| 0:54.1 | Today we hear from Barnaby's mom, Emma. |
| 0:56.8 | As we were hearing in our bulletin there, |
| 0:58.6 | in an open letter to the Times newspaper, |
| 1:01.4 | she has urged a police staff member who she said wrote a graphic post in a police |
| 1:06.0 | WhatsApp group about the killings to, I quote, show the respect that was not given to her sum. |
| 1:11.7 | We will learn more about her concern shortly. |
| 1:14.3 | Zayna Bedawi, the broadcaster and president of Sowas, |
| 1:18.1 | traveled the African continent over seven years for her debut book, |
| 1:22.3 | an African history of Africa. |
| 1:24.5 | Along the way, she met a local academic in Congo who told her |
| 1:28.8 | that women have been specifically omitted from the history books of Africa. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, Zainab's book aims to do its bit to change that. |
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