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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour - Camila Batmanghelidjh, Surrogacy, Women in Jazz

27/02/2021

Weekend Woman's Hour - Camila Batmanghelidjh, Surrogacy, Women in Jazz

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour - Camila Batmanghelidjh, Surrogacy, Women in Jazz

Camila Batmanghelidjh, Surrogacy and single fatherhood, Women in Jazz.

Camila Batmanghelidjh, Surrogacy and single fatherhood, Jazz and gender equality.

In her first in-depth broadcast interview since winning the High Court disqualification case regarding the disbanded children's charity Kids Company, its founder, Camila Batmanghelidjh, explains why she fought so long and hard to be cleared.

David Watkins is one of the first single men in the UK to have a surrogate baby after a law change in January 2019. David talks about becoming a father to baby Miles in July 2020. Faye Spreadbury, a married mother of two, explains what it was like to take on the role of surrogate.

How important is empathy in leadership? Chef Angela Hartnett, and Belinda Parmar, CEO of the Empathy Business, discuss empathy and how business leaders can use it as a tool to manage staff emotions in the workplace.

Charlotte Sibtain talks about her collection of more than 400 vintage wedding photos from charity shops, markets and the internet and her quest to track their owners.

Novelist Julie Ma talks about her first book Happy Families which is centred around a Chinese takeaway, the Yau Sum in West Wales, and closely resembles the one she grew up in and now runs with her brother.

BBC correspondent Mariko Oi explains Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) announcement that women will be invited to its all-male meetings: as long as they don't speak. 

Are women in the UK jazz scene facing discrimination and sexual harassment? Sarah Raine, an academic and anthropologist and Jas Kayser, who's a jazz drummer and musician, discuss gender equality in the music industry.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Paula McFarlane
Editor: Siobhann Tighe

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