Army racism, Gardens and the Bloomsbury Group, Fantastically Great Women musical
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Kerry-Ann Knight, who served in the army for over a decade, has spoken out about the years of racist and sexist abuse she received whilst serving saying that it made her life "a living hell". She joins Nuala to discuss her experience of taking the Ministry of Defence to an employment tribunal where she accepted a substantial settlement, along with an apology. Her experience has led to lawyer Emma Norton - who's an expert in this field - to call for an inquiry in to the experiences of black and minoritised service personnel in the armed forces.
A new exhibition, Gardening Bohemia, at the Garden Museum in London explores the relationship between women in the Bloomsbury group and gardening. Plus a book out earlier this year, Rural Hours, looks at the influence of time spent in the countryside on three women writers associated with the group, including Virginia Woolf. Curator Claudia Tobin and author Harriet Baker discuss.
When illustrator and author Kate Pankhurst started writing the Fantastically Great Women book, she didn’t know she was a distant relative of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst – or that the book would become an award-winning pop musical. With the show currently on at The Other Palace in London, Nuala talks to Kate about why she wanted to celebrate historic women and their achievements, plus cast member Anelisa Lamola performs live in the studio.
Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:00.0 | He hunted at night terrorizing his victims. |
| 0:04.5 | He would appear in the dark. |
| 0:06.5 | Every single one of his victims was black. |
| 0:08.9 | He was a kill. |
| 0:10.0 | People were desperate and nobody knew where he was. |
| 0:13.0 | But despite his shocking death toll, he only served 12 years in jail. |
| 0:17.0 | The families of his victims want justice. |
| 0:20.0 | The whole scale of it, it's mesmerizing. |
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| 0:34.7 | Hello, I'm Nula McGovrin and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:39.2 | Just to say that for rights reasons the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this |
| 0:44.6 | podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. |
| 0:48.6 | Well today a lawyer for the Center for Military Justice is calling for an independent inquiry into the treatment of |
| 0:53.9 | Black Asian and ethnic minority service personnel in the military. |
| 0:58.6 | We're going to hear her reasons why. |
| 1:00.2 | And we'll also hear from Kerrian Knight, she is a former service woman who recounts the racist and sexist abuse |
| 1:06.0 | she says she experienced while serving. |
| 1:09.0 | Also, later this hour, the country lies of women we often associate with the city. |
| 1:13.4 | Virginia Wolf is one. We're going to hear more about how London's Bloomsbury set of |
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