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Woman's Hour: Emily Ratajkowski, Republicanism in Barbados, Josephine Baker

30/11/2021

Emily Ratajkowski, Republicanism in Barbados, Josephine Baker

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Emily Ratajkowski, Republicanism in Barbados, Josephine Baker

Emily Ratajkowski discusses sexuality, feminism, empowerment and the male gaze.

Emily Ratajkowski is an American model, entrepreneur & writer.  She rocketed to fame aged 21 when she took part in Robin Thicke’s music video,  Blurred Lines.  At the time Emily argued that the provocative display of her body represented a form of feminist empowerment.  In her first book, My Body, she argues something more nuanced.   

The chemist Boots is  in the firing line from campaigners. For Black Friday, Boots halved the price of the morning-after-pill and now campaigners want the reduced price to become permanent.  Emma is joined by  journalist Rose Stokes &  Diana Johnson, Labour MP.
Yesterday was big news for the Caribbean island of Barbados, as it cuts ties with the British Crown to become a republic. The country has sworn in its first president - Dame Sandra Mason.  Celestina Olulode reporter for BBC World Service,  joins Emma from Barbados.

89-year-old barrister Margaret Owen OBE recently embarked on a 6-day hunger strike to raise awareness of the case of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe.  Margaret’s protest followed the 21-day hunger strike by Nazanin’s husband Richard Ratcliffe. She joins Emma to talk about the experience and what she wanted to achieve.

American-born French singer & dancer Josephine Baker is about to become the first black woman to be immortalised in the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris. She broke boundaries in the 1930s with performances mocking colonialism and became an international star. She was also a resistance fighter for France during World War II and had a role in the civil rights movement in the US.  Research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Adjoa Osei joins Emma.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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