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Woman's Hour: Bat for Lashes, Women and D-Day, Author Saima Mir, Sextortion

Bat for Lashes, Women and D-Day, Author Saima Mir, Sextortion

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Bat for Lashes, Women and D-Day, Author Saima Mir, Sextortion

Singer-songwriter Bat for Lashes on her new album, The Dream of Delphi.

Historian Shalina Patel joins Anita to talk about the women who played a part in D-Day, including the little known Peruvian secret service agent Elvira Chaudoir.

The singer-songwriter Natasha Khan, known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, joins Anita to talk about her new album, The Dream of Delphi.  Named after her daughter Delphi, her new music explores motherhood through lush orchestral sounds.   She discusses having a baby during the Covid lockdown and how the experience informed her song-writing.  

Vengeance is award-winning journalist and writer Saima Mir’s second novel, and the sequel to her crime thriller debut The Khan. The book continues the story of Jia Khan as she’s fighting to keep her position at the head of a crime syndicate her father created, and as the mysterious corpses of men begin to appear around the city. Saima joins Anita in the studio to discuss writing a British Asian crime family, creating the characters she wants to read, and why sisterhood is at the heart of her new novel.

The mother of a 16 year-old-boy who ended his life after becoming the victim of a sextortion gang says the tech giant Meta has taken too long to hand over data which might help the investigation into his death.   Joe Tidy, the BBC’s first Cyber Correspondent, explains how he’s been investigating Sextortion – a type of online blackmail which involves threatening to share intimate pictures of the victim. 

Today marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when thousands of Allied troops landed on beaches across Normandy, marking the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied northern Europe.  What’s often forgotten is the important role that women played in organising this huge military project and making the D-Day happen.  Anita Rani speaks to historian, teacher and writer Shalina Patel, who has told some of these women’s stories in her book The History Lessons, which celebrates stories and people beyond the usual narratives.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Olivia Skinner

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