38. The Yorkshire Ripper: Do women need to reclaim the night?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Peter Sutcliffe, better known as the Yorkshire Ripper murdered 13 women and attacked many others. The case involved 5 million hours of mostly futile police work and sparked angst and fury among women. Could he have been stopped sooner? On this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore how the police were sidetracked in their investigation by confirmation bias and sexism and how women responded with “Reclaim the Night” marches across the country. Warning: This episode includes descriptions of sexual violence, murder and possibly some strong language. This episode contains audio from: The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story produced by Wall to Wall, BBC Archive, BBC AUDIO – BRASSTACKS, BBC News, John Humble and ITV. CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Louisa Field Assistant Producer: Simona Rata Music: Matt Chandler Editor: Rami Tzabar Academic Consultants for The Open University: Dr. Zoe Walkington & Dr. Camilla Elphick #BadPeople_BBC Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland Bad People is produced in partnership with The Open University and is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds.

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0:36.8	Sophie, welcome back. Welcome back. What what is what how have you been? What what have you been up to?
0:44.8	Well, I have jet lag Sophie jet lag
0:49.3	I'm so happy about it because it means that I went home to Canada for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic
0:54.9	And I got to see my mom and it was so emotional. I was I mean genuinely when I saw it the airport
1:01.9	I ran like in like in a row like romantic comedy like ran towards her and I just embraced her
1:10.4	And we were just sort of crying and shaking for like five minutes and people around us
1:14.6	It's a kind of moment which I feel like in other times people around you would be like wow there
1:18.7	That's that's a bit much, but right now everyone's like yep, I get it. What about you Sophie?
1:25.1	I mean, I went to the Edinburgh fringe and
1:29.5	It was just so emotional being back. They have this amazing street food and
1:36.5	When I saw it, I just ran it was like in a romcom and as I was holding this burrito, I was just
1:44.3	Crying and shaking and it's one of those things where usually people would be like that's a bit much
1:48.5	But in this scenario people were just like yeah, we get it
1:52.2	I'm just really happy I ate a lot of burritos and Thai food and
1:58.4	Oh, I'm getting emotional even talking about it now, but yes, I've had a great summer
2:03.2	So in order to like launch the autumn with our
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