BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The system of one word ratings for schools in England 'should stay' and has 'significant benefits' according to the government. It said the grades, such as 'Inadequate', 'requires improvement' 'good' and "outstanding" gave parents an important summary of local schools. Teaching unions have called for more nuanced ratings Simon Kidwell is the President of the school leaders union the NAHT and joins Anita Rani to explain.
The Internet Watch Foundation annual report has said that children under six are being manipulated into “disturbing” acts of sexual abuse while parents think they are playing safely on household devices. They say 2023 was “the most extreme year on record”, finding more than 275,000 webpages containing child sexual abuse with a record amount of “category A” material. IWF’s CEO Susie Hargreaves joins Anita to discuss the report’s findings.
The deaths of 21-year-old Diane Jones and her two young children, in a house fire in October 1995 shocked the community of Merthyr Tydfil. The police originally thought it was an accident - but in the days following the fire launched a triple murder investigation after petrol was found on the carpet. Just months later, Annette was charged with triple murder, manslaughter and arson with intent to endanger life. She was found guilty with the charge of arson and sentenced to 13 years. After two-and-a-half years, her conviction was overturned - but it troubled Annette until her death in 2017. Annette’s daughter, Nicole Jacob, is delving into her mum’s story in a new podcast, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story.
Cassie Werber’s new novel Open Season features a romantic relationship between two couples who are exploring the possibilities of open relationships. It’s a world that Cassie herself in familiar with in real-life with her husband, and she joins Anita to discuss the inspiration for her book.
Beaux Harris lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancers caused by the same gene mutation – called BRCA1. Two years ago, Beaux discovered she has the same BRCA1 gene mutation. Anita talks to Dany Bell from Macmillan and to Beaux about her story and how she’s now chosen to fundraise to pay for preventative treatment.
Presented by Anita Rani Producer: Louise Corley Studio Engineer: Bob Nettles
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from podcasts. offstead judgments will remain the same. The government have said the grades |
| 0:54.4 | such as outstanding and inadequate give parents an important summary of the |
| 0:58.6 | school. I'd like to hear from you about how you feel about it. Do you agree? Are you parents who've changed |
| 1:04.6 | address or schools based on the offstead result? Are you a head teacher who's |
| 1:09.0 | had your school downgraded? What impact did that have? Are you a teacher who was hoping for a |
| 1:13.7 | different outcome? Or are you in agreement that it should remain as it is? We |
| 1:18.5 | would love to hear your reactions this morning on this. Get in touch in the |
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| 1:25.0 | me via the website or you can what sat me on 3700 144 you can also leave me a voice note if you so wish. |
| 1:33.0 | Also on the program, Cassie Werber has written a novel all about two couples in open relationships. |
| 1:39.4 | Her inspiration, her own open marriage. She'll be telling me all about both. |
| 1:45.0 | And has there ever been an event that changed the rest of your life? |
| 1:50.0 | There's a new BBC Sounds podcast called Wrongly Accused the Annette Hewin story who as a young mother |
| 1:56.2 | was wrongly convicted of arson and manslaughter. She was sentenced to 13 years, served 2.5, during which she was pregnant, had her baby |
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