Summary
On Monday, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act and third degree rape - and could go to jail for over 20 years. He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault. While some are celebrating the verdict as the start of a new era and a sign of changing public attitudes towards sexual assault, Weinstein's lead attorney Donna Rotunno promised to appeal, saying "the fight is not over". So what does the ruling mean for women?
The man booker prize winning author Anne Enright discusses her new novel Actress, her fascination with strong love between mothers and daughters, and the parallels between her own life and her heroine’s.
An estimated 1.24 million people are affected by eating disorders in the UK yet the treatment and diagnosis is still comparatively misunderstood. A new research programme launched this week will examine the genetic element of eating disorders and how this interacts with environmental factors.
Childhood cancer is thankfully rare and the past few decades have seen dramatic improvements in the outlook for children diagnosed with the disease; today more than three-quarters survive. We hear from three mothers – Sam, June and Jenny - whose children were diagnosed. How did they cope day to day watching their offspring struggle through endless treatment? How does it impact the rest of the family? And how has the experience affected their response to the world around them?
A young Muslim woman, Noor Inayat-Khan was many things: a dutiful daughter, a musician, an artist, a poet fluent in several languages and a published writer. Later, she was a vital part of the fight against Nazism, as a wireless telephonist in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She sacrificed her life for the cause of freedom and now a new interactive exhibition is keeping her story alive. Lynelle Howson, an historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission tells us about her life and work.
Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Rosie Stopher Editor Karen Dalziel
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Noah Inayat Khan was an agent with the Special Operations Executive in World War II. |
| 0:11.1 | She died in Dachau when she was only 30, but she used to be remembered with a blue plug |
| 0:17.4 | and an exhibition about her life and work. |
| 0:21.0 | A new novel by the man Booker Prize winner Anne N. Wright. |
| 0:24.7 | Actress is set in Dublin where Anne has spent most of her life. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm a reluctant Irish woman and I live reluctantly in Ireland and you know |
| 0:33.2 | in late in life I've come to realise that I really love the place |
| 0:36.2 | and that there's much to be celebration there. |
| 0:39.6 | New research into the cause of eating disorders. |
| 0:42.9 | Why is attention now being paid to the genetic element in anorexia and bulimia? |
| 0:49.7 | And the mothers whose children have been diagnosed with cancer? |
| 0:54.0 | Even if the child is in remission does the anxiety ever go away? |
| 0:59.1 | I know what I saw and what I heard and I can't unsee it or unhear it |
| 1:04.7 | and I do take it round with me like a grey cloud. |
| 1:09.9 | It was on Monday at the beginning of the week that the news came through from New York |
| 1:15.2 | that Harvey Weinstein had been found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act |
| 1:20.7 | and third degree rape. As accusations of sexual harassment began to |
| 1:26.3 | flood in from women who'd been forced to be unwittingly close to Weinstein, |
| 1:31.5 | the Me Too hashtag began to spread around the world. |
| 1:35.3 | It had been created by Tarana Burke in 2006 but it was not until 2017 and Weinstein |
| 1:42.2 | that it really took hold. Nevertheless there was widespread |
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