Bernardine Evaristo, Greek Refugee Camps, DV Perpertrators

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Bernardine Evaristo’s novels The Emperor’s Babe and Mr Loverman will both be re-published this week. Bernardine won the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other but how do those two earlier works set up themes she then went on to explore further? And as people turn to books for distraction and escape during lockdown, what titles does Bernardine recommend?

Jo Todd from the organisation RESPECT talks to us about perpetrators of domestic violence and what her charity is doing to help them stop their behaviour.

Two refugee camps in Greece have cases of coronavirus, so what's it like to live there at the moment. We speak to Parwana Amiri who is staying at the Ritsona Refugee Camp and Katy Fallon who's a journalist based in Athens.

And play and playfulness: how can we help our children get the most out of their playtime, and how can us adults take a leaf out of their book? Dr. Mel McCree joins us. She's a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Bath Spa University.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.0	Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Wednesday, 15th April.
0:11.3	Good morning.
0:12.8	In today's program, Bernardine Everisto, Booker Prize winner for Girl Woman, other, what
0:19.0	inspires her characters?
0:22.1	You may remember last week, I asked a question about play and whether adults really know
0:27.4	how to do it.
0:28.8	Today the importance of play during a pandemic, whether you're a child or a grown-up, and
0:34.1	some ideas about how to do it.
0:37.2	And COVID-19 has been identified in two refugee camps in Greece.
0:42.8	How can a vulnerable population in cramped conditions be protected?
0:49.3	More and more reports of domestic violence have been coming to light since so many families
0:54.1	have been locked into the home together for such a long and stressful period which shows
0:59.1	no sign of coming to an end.
1:02.3	The home secretary, British Patel, in the government press conference on Saturday, made
1:06.8	plain where she believed the responsibility for the violence lay.
1:11.0	Now I'm clear about this, it's the perpetrators who should be the ones that have to leave
1:16.2	the family homes and not the supposed loved ones whom they torment and abuse.
1:22.6	Our priority is to get the abuses out, but sadly this is not always possible.
1:28.2	So where a victim and their children do need to leave, we will ensure that they have a
1:32.4	safe place to go to.
1:35.5	Well respect is an organisation that focuses its efforts on the perpetrators of domestic
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