Black Women and Human Rights, Film Diversity, Tracey Crouch MP
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
According to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, three quarters of black women do not feel the NHS protects them equally. That's the findings of a poll it commissioned on being Black in the UK. The poll also highlights Black women's thoughts on their human rights and the police. We hear from Celine Henry who's one of the researchers, and the Chair of the Committee, Harriet Harman, MP.
Famous film awards are trying to improve their diversity with new rules. We discuss how effective it'll be with Mariette Rissenbeek who's the Executive Director of the Berlinale and Tolu Akisanya who's a journalist, film publicist and part of The Culture Reel podcast.
The sculptor, Bridget McCrum, didn't start her career til she was in her forties. Now 86, she's still working with stone and in the last 10 years has had more interest in her work than ever. One of her pieces recently sold for £68, 000.
Tracey Crouch is an MP based in Kent. She used to be Sports Minister but resigned two years ago because of the Government’s stance on fixed-odds betting machines. During the summer, she announced publicly that she's got breast cancer. She says that her going public has persuaded others to get examined.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, Jenny Marley, welcoming |
| 0:06.8 | it to the Woman's Hour podcast for Monday, the 14th of September. Good morning. In today's |
| 0:14.5 | programme, lots of changes proposed for awards ceremonies in the film industry. The Oscars |
| 0:20.7 | will only reward films that pass their diversity tests, and in Germany, the Bell in |
| 0:26.4 | Marley will make its performance awards gender-neutral. What difference will the new rules make? |
| 0:33.4 | The sculptor, Bridik McCrum, she began her career in her 40s at 86. She still works with stone |
| 0:40.3 | and now has more interest in her work than ever. And the MP encouraging other women to check their |
| 0:46.5 | breasts, Tracey Grouch, on her reasons for getting public with her cancer. A poll in which black people |
| 0:55.4 | were asked about their human rights, treatment by the police and by the NHS, was commissioned by the |
| 1:01.5 | Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. The results have confirmed something we've spoken |
| 1:07.4 | about on Woman's Hour before, when we talked about the fact that black women are five times more |
| 1:12.2 | likely to die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth than our white women. The new poll shows that |
| 1:19.5 | three-quarters of black women feel the NHS does not protect them equally. |
| 1:24.4 | Well, how was this survey conducted and what will be the result of what it demonstrates? |
| 1:29.6 | I'm joined by Harriet Harmon MP, the chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, |
| 1:34.0 | and by Celine Henry, who's the researcher for Clearview Research. |
| 1:38.6 | Celine, how was the research conducted? |
| 1:42.0 | Well, good morning, Jenny. I love you to be here. So the research was done using polling, |
| 1:48.4 | focus groups and interviews to conduct the actual sample size. And the sample size were about |
| 1:55.5 | 515 black people aged 16 and above across the UK. And in that, we had 213 men and 299 women. |
| 2:05.6 | And then, of course, we had one person who identified as transgender and two non-binary. |
| 2:11.2 | And in order to achieve that sample size, we used existing databases |
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