Can sex offenders change? Camilla Thurlow, Cook the perfect with Ravinder Bhogal, Childless older women
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Becky's father went to prison for sex offences against children. For a BBC documentary, Can Sex Offenders Change?, Becky met three sex offenders who didn’t go to jail, but had rehabilitation treatment in the community. We hear from Becky and Professor Belinda Whynder, Research Director Centre for Crime Offending, Prevention and Engagement at Nottingham Trent University and a co-founder of the charity Safer Living Foundation.
Former Love Island contestant Camilla Thurlow worked in explosive ordinance disposal, finding and clearing landmines in some of the world’s most dangerous and inhospitable places. She has written a book - Not the Type – Finding my place in the real world.
The Office for National Statistics has estimated that the number of women who reach 80 without children will almost triple in the next 25 years. As a result demand for paid care in nursing homes is expected to increase sharply. Why is the focus on childless women and not men, and how is the data being reported in the media? Jody Day is a psychotherapist, author and founder of Gateway Women, a global organisation for women who are involuntarily childless.
Ravinder Bhogal is a chef and restaurateur whose book, Jikoni is subtitled as proudly inauthentic recipes from an immigrant kitchen. She tells Jenni how to Cook the Perfect Coffee Rasgullas with Mascarpone Ice Cream and Espresso Caramel.
Sixteen year old Rhea from Shetland put out an appeal using an anonymous app, to anyone who wanted to share their personal stories about sexual violence. She received more than 60 responses within 24 hours. Rhea, and Lisa Ward, manager of Rape Crisis Shetland, talk about what those stories say about sexual violence within rural areas.
Mary Stewart has been called one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century. Her 1954 best-seller Madame, Will You Talk? has been dramatised in two parts for Radio 4. We speak to the writers Jane Casey and Harriet Evans who are both fans of her work.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:38.4 | This week, the highlights of our week include Camilla Thurlow, was a contestant on Love Island of course, but she's also done work clearing landmines, so it'll be interesting to hear from her. |
| 0:50.0 | We'll discuss the ONS statistics that came out this week, are referring to so-called childless |
| 0:56.0 | women and the impact they would have on the demand for care in the future. |
| 1:01.8 | The radio for play tomorrow afternoon is an adaptation of the Mary |
| 1:05.6 | Stuart novel Madam Will You Talk. We discussed Mary Stuart on the program |
| 1:10.1 | this week and here's a quick clip illustrating how she was reviewed back in the day. this |
| 1:15.0 | this absolutely hilarious description of what she's brought with her royalties in a review of one of her books |
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| 1:27.9 | work to her husband who was a very well-respected professor of geology. |
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| 1:34.4 | But it was something people used to boast about having. |
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