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Woman's Hour

Cat Power, US Midterms, Hope Boxes, writer Yasmin El-Rifae

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Chan Marshall, better known by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer, songwriter and producer. After three decades in the music industry, she has eight original albums under her belt but has also made three cover albums. The most recent saw her singing everything from the work of The Pogues to Lana Del Rey. This Saturday she will be recreating Bob Dylan’s iconic 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert. It was one of the most controversial tours in the history of rock & roll, where Dylan enraged fans for electrifying his songs. Power will be performing them in the same order as Dylan himself: the first half of the show will be acoustic before an electric band join her for the second half. Chan joins Emma to talk music, motherhood and honouring a rock and roll icon. With just five days to go until the US midterms, Emma takes a look at what matters to women voters. On Monday we heard from a former Republican strategist, today Emma will be joined by Democratic Party political strategist and former head of EMILY’s List, Stephanie Schriock. A new project, led by Lancaster University, has created memory boxes, designed to help women whose babies are taken into care at birth while a court determines their child’s future. We hear why these ‘Hope boxes’ are so important to the women who developed the idea and Research Fellow, Claire Mason who supported them. And discuss why the number of newborns in care proceedings in England and Wales has increased over the past decade. We revisit the events of the Egyptian protests in 2012-2013 in Tahrir Square in Cairo, with the author Yasmin El-Rifae. Her book, ‘Radius, A Story of Feminist Revolution', tells the story of the women and men who formed Opantish – Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment and Assault to intervene in the spiralling cases of sexual violence against women in the square. The group members often risked assault themselves and Yasmin was also one of their organisers.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Good morning and welcome to the programme. Have you ever heard of booty patrols?

0:15.2

No, me neither. The name refers, apparently, to the practice of unwarrensied stops of

0:20.8

cars driven by women. Some male police officers find pretty.

0:26.2

And it is one of the details in a new damning report out today by the police watchdog,

0:30.2

ordered by the government after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving

0:35.7

police officer in March of last year. Hundreds of police officers who should have failed

0:41.1

vetting checks may now be in the job in England and Wales. Eight forces were looked at and

0:47.8

decisions on officers which were questionable at best have come out. Police leaders have

0:53.9

been criticised for allowing a prevalent culture of officers who are predatory towards women

0:59.4

to join and stay in the ranks. But the voices of women also wing out in today's report

1:06.6

because officers, staff and volunteers were surveyed for their experience of working

1:11.8

in the police and more than 10,000 answered the call. A huge response which has also been

1:17.9

noted and the details shared are worth pausing on. Senior male officers pursuing women in

1:25.0

lower ranks for sex via the work email system. Also at parties, viewing porn at work and

1:32.8

inviting others to look at it too. This is also on phones that have been seized and

1:38.5

are in police custody, but also looking at porn on computer systems at work too. Sending

1:44.6

porn to female colleagues phones, misogynistic comments about crime victims and the public

1:51.3

that they are meant to be policing, remember by consent. Of course there is much being

1:56.7

made of the record number of women now working in the police force. Nor is this a report

2:02.2

meant to paint all male police officers as the same. But it does give a window an important

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