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Woman's Hour: David Carrick sentencing, Shamima Begum story, Danielle Deadwyler, Carmel McMahon

07/02/2023

David Carrick sentencing, Shamima Begum story, Danielle Deadwyler, Carmel McMahon

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, David Carrick sentencing, Shamima Begum story, Danielle Deadwyler, Carmel McMahon

What has Shamima Begum been doing since she left the UK in 2015?

Danielle Deadwyler talks to Nuala McGovern about her portrayal of the civil rights activist Mamie Till Mobley in Chinonye Chukwu's Till and we hear more about Shamima Begum

Former Police Officer David Carrick will be sentenced this morning.  BBC correspondent Helena Wilkinson joins Nuala.
Shamima Begum left the UK in 2015. Now, for the first time, we have a better idea of what she might have been doing in the four years between then and her re-appearance in a camp in Syria in 2019. We know that she has married an IS fighter, had three children and lost three children in the last eight years – but what else happened? Nuala McGovern is joined by the BBC’s Josh Baker, host of the podcast I’m Not A Monster: The Shamima Begum Story and Dr Gina Vale, a lecturer of Criminology at the University of Southampton who specialises in terrorism. 
Danielle Deadwyler's extraordinary portrayal of the civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley in Chinonye Chukwu’s Till (2022) has earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Leading Actress. The film tells the true story of Mamie’s pursuit of justice after her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was tortured and lynched in 1955. Danielle joins Nuala McGovern to discuss grief, Mamie’s legacy, and the ongoing fight for civil rights.
As low-slung trousers come back into fashion and high-waists are all the rage we ask how fashion, age and generation determine where our trousers sit and how we feel about it. Hannah Rogers Assistant Fashion Editor for The Times joins Nuala.
In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of emotional baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present.  Carmel has now written a book, In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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