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Lily Cole: ‘I think I learnt a lot’

The model and climate campaigner Lily Cole explained what the “backlash” she faced after she posted a photograph of herself wearing a blue burka on Instagram has taught her. She shared the post to ‘celebrate diversity’ and promote her new book on sustainability, but later deleted the photos and apologised. They were posted as Afghanistan was being taken over by the Taliban in August, who forced women to wear the burka when they were last in control there in the 1990s.

Lily joined Emma Barnett on Woman’s Hour from COP 26 where she is hosting a panel.

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