{"id":2106,"date":"2024-09-03T18:47:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/sirimavo-bandaranaike-the-worlds-first-woman-prime-minister-bbc-world-service-witness-history\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:47:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T18:47:44","slug":"sirimavo-bandaranaike-the-worlds-first-woman-prime-minister-bbc-world-service-witness-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/sirimavo-bandaranaike-the-worlds-first-woman-prime-minister-bbc-world-service-witness-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirimavo Bandaranaike: The world\u2019s first woman prime minister &#8211; BBC World Service, Witness History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Paxf64SWq8Y?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the modern world\u2019s first female head of government in 1960, when she became the prime minister of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known then.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM<\/p>\n<p>She entered politics after the assassination of her husband just a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Sunethra Bandaranaike tells Witness History about her mother\u2019s ground-breaking political achievement.<\/p>\n<p>More from Witness History here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4cfahLaE406BWHwYkYHqB57<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThis is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel.<br \/>\nIf you like what we do, you can also find us here:<br \/>\nInstagram \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nTwitter \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nFacebook \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/facebook.com\/bbcworldservice<br \/>\nBBC World Service website \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching and subscribing!<br \/>\n#BBCWorldService #WorldService<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Paxf64SWq8Y\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the modern world\u2019s first female head of government in 1960, when she became the prime minister of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known then. Click here to subscribe to our channel \ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd https:\/\/bbc.in\/3VyyriM She entered politics after the assassination of her husband just a year earlier. Her daughter, Sunethra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155150479,"featured_media":2107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,2222,1361,816,2228,2229,328,1362,1862,1363,2223,2224,2225,2227,2231,2230,2033,2226,2232,2221],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-witness-history","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-discovery","tag-female-politicians","tag-international-womens-week","tag-podcast","tag-podcasts","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-sirimavo-bandaranaike","tag-sri-lanka","tag-sri-lanka-politics","tag-sunethra-bandaranaike","tag-who-was-the-first-female-prime-minister","tag-who-was-the-first-woman-prime-minister","tag-witness-history","tag-women-in-politics","tag-worlds-first-female-prime-minister","tag-worlds-first-woman-prime-minister","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4155150479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}