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Woman's Hour

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Diana Parkes, Ukraine, Unmodified bodies, Joanna Scanlan, Margaret Atwood

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In an exclusive interview, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and future Queen Consort talks to Emma about her work with domestic abuse survivors. They are joined by Diana Parkes whose daughter Joanna Simpson was battered to death by her estranged husband in 2010. Olena Symonenko tells us about her escape to a safer part of Ukraine only to find out that her apartment that she had lived in all her life had been hit by a bomb. The actress and writer Joanna Scanlan known for her many roles in TV shows such as Getting On and The Thick of It, talks about her BAFTA nominated film After Love. Do we change our bodies because we want to or because we are being pressured to conform by society? Cambridge Professor of Political Philosophy Clare Chambers considers this question and concludes that the unmodified body is under attack, particularly for women, who are constantly given the message that their body is not good enough just as it is. Her new book is Intact – A Defence of the Unmodified Body. Margaret Atwood's latest collection of essays, Burning Questions, gathers together her essays and other occasional non-fiction pieces from 2004 to 2021. The literary legend talks culture wars, feminism and grief. Presenter: Andrea Catherwood Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:05.0

Hello, I'm Andrea Catawood and welcome the two women's hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Hello and welcome to Weekend Women's Hour.

0:13.0

In a moment, our exclusive interview with Camilla Duchess of Cornwall.

0:17.7

We'll be hearing one woman's story of fleeing her home in Kiev,

0:21.4

hours before it was destroyed.

0:23.8

We'll meet the philosopher,

0:25.0

mounting a defence of the unmodified body. Also, the actress and writer, Joanna Scanlon,

0:30.7

is known for her highly memorable roles and TV shows, such as The Thick of It,

0:35.2

but she's just been nominated for a BAFTA for the film After Love.

0:39.6

And the literary legend that is Margaret Atwood.

0:44.2

On Thursday, we broadcast a special edition of Woman's Hour.

0:47.8

Camilla Duchess of Cornwall first met Diana Parks in 2016

0:52.6

at a meeting of the domestic abuse charity Safe Lives.

0:56.4

Where Diana shared the story of what happened to her daughter, Joanna.

1:00.9

Joanna, known as Jo, to family and friends, was battered to death in 2010

1:05.8

by her estranged husband, with their two children within earshot.

1:10.4

He was later imprisoned, and Diana, in her early 70s,

1:14.3

immediately took her two grandchildren, who were nine and ten,

1:18.3

to her home on the Isle of Man,

1:20.2

and began parenting all over again in retirement.

1:24.4

Camilla heard in great detail that story,

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