Annette Bening, Covid realities project, Ann Cleeves, Corroboration in rape trials
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Annette Bening stars in a new film 'Hope Gap' about the collapse of a marriage after 29 years. She joins Jane to discuss the disintegration of that union.
The Covid realities project from York and Birmingham universities chronicles the experiences of low-income families during the lockdown period. Jane hears about the project from Dr Maddy Power, Research Fellow at the University of York and founder of the York Food Justice Alliance, and from Shirley who is taking part in the project.
Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty critically acclaimed novels. She previously worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook, and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. Her latest novel is The Darkest Evening – the ninth in the Vera series.
What impact does corroboration have on conviction rates for rape in Scotland? We hear from Emma Bryson, a founder member of Speak Out Survivors, and Grazia Robertson, a criminal lawyer based in Glasgow who sits on the Law Society of Scotland Criminal Law Committee.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:34.0 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to the Women's Hour Podcast from Tuesday, the 1st of September 2020. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, good morning to you. |
| 0:43.0 | Annette Benning is one of our guests this morning on the program |
| 0:46.0 | and also the novelist Anne Cleves joins us to. |
| 0:49.0 | There is a new Vera Book out, |
| 0:51.0 | it's called the darkest evening, very appropriate as we turn all |
| 0:55.2 | autumnal so Anne Cleves on the show today and we'll also discuss corroboration |
| 1:00.5 | in Scottish law. What impact does it actually have on Scottish justice? |
| 1:05.6 | Two different opinions on that on Women's Hour this morning. First though, let's start |
| 1:10.8 | with Annette Benning, star of films like American Beauty and the kids are all right. |
| 1:15.0 | She is playing a British woman in a new film set in Sussex. It's called Hope Gap. |
| 1:20.0 | She plays a woman called Grace who discovers that her husband, a school teacher |
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