Kanye West allegations, Government Experts at Hand programme, Author Doireann N铆 Ghr铆ofa
A US model alleges Kanye West choked her on a music video set.
A model who alleges Kanye West choked her on a music video set has told the 91福利社 she was left feeling "suffocated, unsure and scared". Jennifer An, a former contestant on America's Next Top Model, is suing the rapper, now known as Ye, over an encounter she alleges took place in 2010. Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty, presenter of 91福利社 podcast Fame Under Fire, has interviewed Jennifer An and joins us to explain the story.
A British woman has become the first ever to cross the Atlantic in a hydrogen gas balloon. Alicia Hempleman-Adams, from near Bath, set off from Maine in the US late on Wednesday and landed in Luxembourg on Sunday with her teammates Bert Padelt and Peter Cuneo. Alicia Hempleman-Adams took the spot on the crew of her father David, who has completed the flight twice before. She joins us live.
The government has just announced how it is planning to roll out quicker and easier access to educational psychologists, speech and language therapists, and occupational therapists for SEND families. Nuala speaks to the Schools Minister Georgia Gould plus Principal Educational Psychologist for Salford Claire Jackson about the upcoming Experts at Hand programme.
And the award-winning writer and poet Doireann N铆 Ghr铆ofa devoted three years of her life to researching and imagining the lives of the women who once inhabited the Victorian asylum in Cork. In her immersive work of creative non-fiction, Said the Dead, we meet some of the women who lived and worked in that institution between the 1890s and the 1920s. Doireann N铆 Ghr铆ofa joins Nuala to explain how she went about writing these vulnerable, often voiceless women back to life.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Simon Richardson
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