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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Women's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.6 | Good morning and welcome to today's programme. As usual, it is a busy one. From the first |
0:15.2 | person to in this country and Olympic gold medal in BMX Racing to an author who has this |
0:20.1 | morning been shortlisted for the women's prize for fiction, it is all going on and we |
0:24.8 | have an exclusive report for you into how changes to the justice system design to mainly benefit |
0:29.6 | women may not be happening at all. And I'll be talking to the women who when listening |
0:35.1 | to this very programme found someone who had the same incredible life story as her. All |
0:41.4 | to come. But first, the DJ Tim Westwood who was on Radio 1 and Radio 1 Extra for nearly |
0:47.1 | 20 years is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Seven women came forward |
0:53.2 | to take part in a BBC investigation and give interviews anonymously. It was joined with |
0:58.1 | the Guardian newspaper. They say he abused his position in the music industry to exploit |
1:03.2 | them. Meanwhile, four other women have accused the DJ of either touching their bottoms or |
1:08.2 | breasts as they pose for photographs with him at different events where he was performing. |
1:13.6 | The thing that all of the women having common is that they were young at the time and that |
1:17.8 | they are black. Tim Westwood, who's 64, is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour |
1:24.0 | and touching between the years of 1992 and 2017. He said he strenuously denies the allegations. |
1:32.2 | Well, Ruth Evans is the producer of the BBC 3 documentary into this which went out last |
1:37.2 | night. Ruth, good morning. The documentary has received a lot of coverage across the |
1:42.2 | whole of the press. Actually, newspapers and other networks, the BBC, any updates since |
1:46.3 | going out last night. We have had a huge amount of response online, lots of people talking |
1:51.3 | about this and actually we've had lots of people coming forwards to the BBC with stories. |
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