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Emma Barnett

@Emmabarnett

BBC Broadcaster: @BBCWomanshour Newsletter: ‘Trying.’ Column: @theipaper. Author: It’s About Bloody Time. Period 🩸 Patron: @smartworkshq

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The moment @EmmaBarnett finished presenting her final Woman’s Hour programme…

Emma gave her final words, highlights, and thanks to you, our listeners, before she heads over to @bbctodayprogramme

You can listen back to her last programme anytime on @bbcsounds 🎧

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‘Freedom is sweet, but it’s not easy.’

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spent six years being held by the Iranian regime after visiting her family in 2016.

She told @EmmaBarnett how she's coping two years on from her release, and how she's still fighting for other imprisoned women.

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‘You don't feel very much different from 50 or 60’ 👀

As pioneering journalist and feminist Gloria Steinem turns 90, she told Emma Barnett what she's learnt over the decades, and what she thinks the women's movement should focus on now:

'Anything they damn well please' 🙌 ⬇️

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‘I wanted to be the one that looked them in the eyes across the court room to say: This isn't right'

❗️ An employment tribunal has ruled that describing an expectant mother as “emotional” at work was discrimination.

Nicola Hinds told @emmabarnett why she wanted to speak out ⬇️

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‘She’d be really proud of it’

Actor Rachael Stirling, daughter of the late Diana Rigg, told @emmabarnett why she decided to speak out after her mother’s death, which sparked a national conversation about end of life care.

Listen here ⬇️

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'I'm not going to say goodbye'

We look back on the ARIA award winning final on-air conversation between Dame Deborah James and 5 Live presenter Tony Livesey

An incredible listen ♥️

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Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜

Virginia Woolf took her own life 83 years ago on this day. Here is the beautiful final letter she left for her husband, my great-uncle Leonard Woolf 💜
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That's now become this article, and Iain and his sister will be on Radio 2 this lunchtime to explain the whole sorry tale.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-686757…
Perhaps goes to show that being out and about is the best form of newsgathering, and often in ways you don't expect.

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I had lots of memorable moments presenting on BBC Radio 5 Live over 6 full-on years which included: Brexit, 3 prime ministers, 2 elections, 1 proroguing of Parliament and 1 global pandemic. As the station turns 30 - this moment, that travelled around the world, came to mind

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It’s our 30th birthday! 🥳

To celebrate, we got some of our current lineup to react to our first ever broadcast in 1994 🎁🎉

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Exclusive: Late last summer, the owner of Manchester’s most notorious flat - the one that prompted the massive row over Night & Day Cafe - received an unlikely visitor.

It was Matty Healy, the lead singer of The 1975. And he said he wanted to buy it...

manchestermill.co.uk/p/he-complaine…

Exclusive: Late last summer, the owner of Manchester’s most notorious flat - the one that prompted the massive row over @nightanddaycafe - received an unlikely visitor. It was Matty Healy, the lead singer of @the1975. And he said he wanted to buy it... manchestermill.co.uk/p/he-complaine…
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‘It was more emotional than I’d anticipated’

Our presenter @EmmaBarnett opened up about why she wanted a baby loss certificate on Woman's Hour today.

We also heard many of your messages on the programme. Thank you for getting in touch.

You can listen to the discussion here ⬇️

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‘It was more emotional than I’d anticipated’

Our presenter @EmmaBarnett opened up about why she wanted a baby loss certificate on Woman's Hour today.

We also heard many of your messages on the programme. Thank you for getting in touch.

You can listen to the discussion here ⬇️

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Carolynne Hunter, who cares for her daughter Freya who has cerebral palsy, spoke to Woman’s Hour in 2022.

Carolynne spoke out about rising household costs for Freya's care which sparked actor Kate Winslet to pay her energy bill.

Carolynne Hunter joins @emmabarnett for an update.

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