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Woman's Hour: Ukraine children, Director of Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock, The implications of a new AI study on the brain

Ukraine children, Director of Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock, The implications of a new AI study on the brain

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Ukraine children, Director of Wicked Little Letters Thea Sharrock, The implications of a new AI study on the brain

Eleven Ukrainian children deported to Russia will soon be reunited with their families.

Eleven Ukrainian children deported to Russia will soon be reunited with their families due to the third and largest deal brokered by Qatar. Emma hears about the latest developments

This week marks two years since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.  Ukraine's government says it has identified 20,000 children who have been abducted by Russian forces. Now Qatar has brokered the third and largest deal, which will see eleven Ukrainian children reunited with their families. Emma speaks to the BBC’s Hague Correspondent, Anna Holligan and film maker Shahida Tulaganova, who directed the ITV documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children.

Wicked Little Letters is a new black comedy film set in Littlehampton in the 1920s. It follows two neighbours, deeply conservative Edith Swan played by Olivia Colman and rowdy Irish single mother Rose Gooding played by Jessie Buckley. When Edith and other residents begin to receive poisonous pen letters full of obscenities, potty mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The director, Thea Sharrock, joins Emma.

A new scientific paper from researchers at Stanford University using AI has shown the ability to spot consistent differences between men and women's brains. Gina Rippon,  neuroscientist and author of The Gendered Brain & Professor Melissa Hines, director of the Gender Development Research Centre at the University of Cambridge join Emma.

How much do you know about your female ancestors? There’s a growing trend in finding out more about our family histories – but it’s harder to find details about women than men. Founder and director of the genealogy service Eneclann, Fiona Fitzsimons and  Ailsa Burkimsher who successfully campaigned for mothers' names to be on marriage certificates join Emma.

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