Baroness Arminka Heliç
/In this post, there is a list of the advanced words and phrases from the BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs interview with Sabrina Cohen-Hatton - a firefighter and psychologist. Aggie and I are currently creating a podcast (in which we will explain some of the words) and it will be launched on 1st Nov!
You can listen to the interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00099wv
INTRO
Lauren Laverne: (00:48) the upper chamber got a sprinkling of star dust
Lauren Laverne: (01:00) she's credited with persuading him to launch a high profile campaign against rape
Lauren Laverne: (01:13) simmering tensions erupted in the former Yugoslavia
Lauren Laverne: (01:21) she fled her Homeland
scarred by what she'd seen
Lauren Laverne: (01:33) bewildered by London
Lauren Laverne: (01:37) seduced by politics
Lauren Laverne: (02:03) touching down at Heathrow
Lauren Laverne: (02:06) sworn into the Lord's
Lauren Laverne: (02:53) you've said in the past that you sometimes suffer from imposter syndrome.
Arminka Heliç: (03:01) a feeling of the need to prove that I'm worthy
1ST DISC
Arminka Heliç: (04:35)
It's loaded with meaning for me today.
COMMUNIST YOUTH ORGANISATION
Arminka Heliç: (05:54) I was probably one of those very rare ones
Arminka Heliç: (06:22) "I can't, The party's corrupt."
Arminka Heliç: (06:34) I wouldn't say shell shock
Arminka Heliç: (06:41) some people were kind of really working their guts out
2ND DISC
Lauren Laverne: (07:28) Did you aspire to anything beyond the music?
Lauren Laverne: (07:31) she had quite a distinctive look
Hairstyle - combined beer, soap and hairspray!
RELIGION
Lauren Laverne: (08:42) I was brought up to think religion is opium for masses
Yugoslav army came and circled the town - blocked radio and TV - rape and kill
Arminka Heliç: (09:59) And then a badly injured man from Doboj was sent to deliver a message to [it's my hometown] to surrender
Arminka Heliç: (10:49) shelling started
Lauren Laverne: (11:33) People …..with scamp possessions
Arminka Heliç: (11:40) they're humiliated (dragging suitcases)
BEING A REFUGEE IS NOT A CHOICE
Arminka Heliç: (12:10) 75 million displaced
3RD DISC
Nice memories of having picnics in the hills - parents listening to old songs on the radio
Arminka Heliç: (13:09) I just was yawning from here to Australia
SLOVENIA
Lauren Laverne: (13:56) a friend smuggled you and your sister into Slovenia
Arminka Heliç: (14:28) that famous cover, which I still have on my mobile phone from the Time magazine of men behind a barbed wire.
COMING TO LONDON
The former wife of the gov minister bought tickets to London for her and her sister
Lauren Laverne: (16:43) . It must've been a bit like waking up on the moon, waking up in Chelsea.
Arminka Heliç: (18:25) . Haagen Dazs,...... there were 13 flavors of ice cream,
Arminka Heliç: (19:02) . and Sir John said to me, completely straight faced "You sound like the communist
Lauren Laverne: (19:54) It sounds like you're having a lot very interesting debates (did a master's degree in international history)
JOINING THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY
Arminka Heliç: (20:28) I was privileged to meet her (Thatcher)
WORKING IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
Lauren Laverne: (21:41) it was there that you were spotted in the House of Commons library filing press cuttings)
I think that they, they saw someone who was just happy to have a chance and privileged to be accepted and uh, keen to prove that I have something to give back.
Lauren Laverne: (22:06) . became William Hague's senior special advisor in 2010
THE FILM WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ANGELINA JOLIE
Arminka Heliç: (23:04) some of my friends ended up in, uh, in what infamously became known as rape camps.
Arminka Heliç: (24:19) . And he (Hague) would watch for 10 minutes and then he would give in (they were flying to Australia and she made him watch it)
Arminka Heliç: (24:29) . we kind of came to conclusion that we should invite Angelina to show the film in foreign office.
Arminka Heliç: (24:35) . we decided under William's and her leadership to set up the preventing sexual violence initiative.
Arminka Heliç: (24:44) . a crime that ought to be punished, not simply swept under the carpet because we are so desperate to have a peace deal.
PSVI held a four day international summit on tackling sexual violence in war in London in 2014. It was hosted by William Hague and Angelina Jolie.
Arminka Heliç: (27:01) . And since then... 156 countries who had adopted the protocol for registering these crimes.
I think we are marching forward
Lauren Laverne: (30:11) . You said earlier that you didn't experience survivor's guilt,
WHEN BACK IN BOSNIA
Arminka Heliç: (31:09) . First thing, is I walk into my house, breathe in the air, and remember my parents.
I reaquire my Bosnian spirit and stubbornness.
LAST DISC
Arminka Heliç: (31:59)
I think in essence it's a story about youth growing up under communism,
DIY book instead of the Bible
GOING TO THE ISLAND
Arminka Heliç: (33:33)
leave a few traces of my experience (would like to take a pen and paper