Catholic Church Abuse. Recycling Shaming, Maureen Lipman
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A woman who won a settlement from the Catholic Church after reporting the abuse she suffered, is now launching a personal injury claim against Westminster Diocese. It's because of a series of emails which she says describe her as needy, manipulative and a bully. She explains to Woman's Hour what she wants to achieve.
A legal challenge began in the High Court this week about municipal waste incinerators. It's being brought by Georgia Elliott-Smith, an environmental engineer and campaigner, who says the level of incinerator emissions is "staggering". She hopes the legal challenge will result in a judicial review.
It's The Duke of Edinburgh's funeral on Saturday. He was married to the Queen for nearly 74 years, and she's acknowledged that he will leave a ‘huge void’. But how do you come to terms with such a loss after so long? Actor, writer and comedian Dame Maureen Lipman recently lost Guido Castro, her long-term partner, having already been widowed in 2004 when her husband Jack Rosenthal died after 30 years of marriage.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Good morning, as the details of Prince Philip's funeral are finalized ahead of |
| 0:43.6 | Saturday all eyes will be on Her Majesty the Queen and thoughts with her not |
| 0:48.5 | necessarily as a monarch but as a woman burying her husband, a widow, someone grieving whom were used to seeing with her husband by her side for nearly 74 years and will now cut a lonelier figure. |
| 1:01.0 | And yet she will be in the bosom of her family indeed many people in the |
| 1:05.0 | last 24 hours have been struck by her granddaughter's tribute to her grandfather |
| 1:09.0 | in which which princess Eugenie promised to look after the Queen now that he's no longer here. |
| 1:15.2 | Today Dame Maureen Lippman is on the programme to discuss her experiences of widowhood and carrying on, |
| 1:21.5 | how to do so and who helped. But how about you? You may have lost someone, you may have a story to share, |
| 1:27.3 | some wisdom to impart. It has been a difficult year for a lot of people. How have you supported someone on the other |
| 1:34.6 | side of this, perhaps a family member, a friend, what worked, what didn't and if you were |
| 1:39.7 | receiving that support what could you have done a bit more with what advice would you give to those |
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