Babes in the wood, Ecocide, Sexism in craft beer, and How to save a life
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Karen Hadaway was one of two little girls murdered in the Babes in the Wood case. Her mother, Michelle, tells us about giving her daughetr's clothes to Martin Bashir in 1991 to get DNA tested. She still hasn't got them back. He says he can't remember the exchange. Michelle describes her feelings in light of the Dyson investigation.
Should the mass destruction of nature, also known as ecocide, be a crime? At the moment there are four crimes covered by the International Criminal Court - genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. Now campaigners are pushing to have ecocide added to the list. We're joined by Jojo Mehta, the co-founder of Stop Ecocide International and barrister Philippe Sand.
Seven years ago “Eva Carter” saved her partner's life. She tells Emma how the experience of that night and her feelings at the time and afterwards fed into her novel How To Save A Life.
In recent days there has been a huge outpouring on social media of women sharing their experiences of sexism working in the craft beer industry. An online conference will be held next month to discuss he problem. Emma is joined by Charlotte Cook, head brewer at Coalition Brewing and Melissa Cole, beer writer and author of The Little Book of Craft Beer.
Note: This podcast has been edited from the original programme. In this programme reference was made to a journalist called Eileen Fairweather, who Michelle Hadaway says witnessed the handing over of her daughter’s clothes to Martin Bashir. Eileen worked with him for several months in 1991, researching a possible BBC documentary. Eileen Fairweather has confirmed to us that her contract ended immediately after that meeting and she never saw Bashir again. She repeatedly tried to find out from Martin Bashir and his team what happened to the clothes and has previously tried to alert the BBC to this issue. She has raised this issue in several newspaper articles and supports Michelle’s fight for the truth about what Bashir did with this evidence. Eileen Fairweather is an award-winning freelance journalist who has specialised for decades in exposing child abuse and institutional cover-ups, including the mass abuse in Islington's children's homes. Her ground breaking work has won the Catherine Pakenham Award for women journalists and two British Press Awards.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to today's program. |
| 0:43.0 | Today we're going to hear what it's like to literally save the life of your partner, |
| 0:47.1 | lying next to you struggling to breathe. |
| 0:49.2 | That's what one of our guests did, performing CPR, saving her husband's life with the help of the paramedics on the phone. |
| 0:55.6 | Have you ever done anything similar? |
| 0:57.1 | Do you know anyone who has, perhaps? |
| 0:59.6 | You have been saved. |
| 1:00.6 | I know someone who was saved running around the park when he collapsed and has |
| 1:04.0 | since met up with the woman who saved him and it's extraordinary but it's also a very |
| 1:08.6 | odd thing when you actually think about it. It might be of course your job as a medic. Do you ever get used to it? |
| 1:15.2 | Perhaps people have come back to you to thank you and maybe you now have some very |
| 1:18.9 | interesting and treasured relationships in your life. |
| 1:22.6 | Your life saving stories today please. |
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