Women and Covid, Rebecca Reid on childless friends, Afghan refugees in Pakistan, Sarah Ditum tackles the poisonous 2000s, Performing Grief. . . a comedy through Alison Larkin.
Former Cabinet Undersecretary Helen McNamara testified at the Covid investigation and said she believed the number 10 culture was poisonous and sexist. In particular, he criticized the particular, misogynistic language used by former senior adviser Dominic Cummings to describe her. Krupa Padhy joins via Lucy Fisher, Whitehall editor of the Financial Times, and Jill Rutter, senior research fellow at the Institute of Government, to talk about what this says about the remedy of women at the heart of government.
Journalist Rebecca Reid talks to Krupa about her childless friends and how she thinks they don’t realize she’ll have to be self-centered now that she has a young son.
Pakistan has ordered all unauthorized Afghan asylum seekers to leave the country. Pakistan hosts more than 4 million Afghan migrants and refugees, about 1. 7 million of whom are undocumented, according to officials. While Afghanistan’s neighbor Pakistan has noticed other people crossing the border for security reasons for four decades, from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the recent return of the Taliban in 2021, Krupa speaks to BBC News Afghan journalist Zarghuna Kargar about the effect of this resolution on women.
The 2000s were an incredibly hostile decade for being a woman, according to editor Sarah Ditum. It was the time when classic media such as television, film, and newspapers came together through the internet; and the resulting fame of nine iconic women: Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna and Jen received an award. Sarah examines how each of these women replaced the concept of “celebrity,” occasionally being a victim of it, in her new e-book Toxic.
Writer and actress Alison Larkin is the writer of The English American, an autobiographical novel about a followed English woman who reunites with her birth mother and a Jane-Austen-style romance in the United States. Alison had avoided love for most of her adult life. However, when she was fifty years old, she discovered true love with an Indian climatologist who had also immigrated to the United States. Then he died. After 30 years of living in the United States, Alison is in the United Kingdom to deliver her one-woman show Grief. . . a comedy that opens Monday at London’s Soho Theatre.
Presenter: Krupa PadhyProducer: Rebecca MyattStudio Director: Emma Harth