Chemical Control, Nadia Conners, Kirsty Wark

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kate, not her real name, has spoken to BBC Radio 4's File on Four Investigates and has revealed that her husband was secretly drugging and raping her for years - in a story that has echoes of the Gisele Pelicot case which rocked France, and the world, at the end of last year. Nuala McGovern speaks to BBC reporter Jane Deith who explains that Kate had to fight for justice and also to Dr Amy Burrell, a research fellow at the University of Birmingham.

Imagine you’re preparing to host a party at your house when a lost elderly woman shows up at your door. What would you do? This actually happened to writer and director Nadia Conners. Nadia explains to Nuala why the interaction stuck with her for years and has now inspired her debut feature film, The Uninvited.

Kirsty Wark, a familiar face on our screens thanks to her long-standing and impressive journalism career, has just been awarded the BAFTA Fellowship - the Academy's highest honour. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about what it means to have been given this recognition after nearly 50 years as a journalist and broadcaster.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Laura Northedge

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0:00.0	Hello, Russell Kane here.
0:03.1	I'm back for another season of character assassinating the nice guy
0:06.4	and binging up the baddies in evil genius.
0:09.2	Yep, even the biggest legends have their skeletons.
0:12.0	So join me and a panel of brilliant comedians
0:14.4	to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history
0:16.9	are more evil or more genius.
0:19.0	I just think every celebrity, said with respect, Russell,
0:22.1	is out of their minds. Evil genius with Russell. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds,
0:34.0	music, radio podcasts. Hello, this is Newell O'MogGovern, and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast.
0:42.0	Hello and welcome.
0:43.7	The Grand National winner, Rachel Blackmore, hangs up her jockey books, boots even, maybe her books as well.
0:49.8	More on her surprise retirement.
0:52.0	In just a moment, we'll talk about all that she has achieved.
0:55.7	Also today, we are all familiar now with the story of Giselle Pelico, the survivor of drugging and mass rape in France.
1:03.6	But today we're going to hear the story of Kate, it's not a real name, who was also drugged and raped by her husband in the UK and talk about what other cases
1:13.0	there may also be.
1:15.0	We have the film director Nadia Connors on her first feature.
1:18.0	It's The Uninvited.
1:19.1	She made this film at 55 and it's based in part on her experience of an elderly, uninvited
1:25.4	guest turning up at her door as she was getting ready to throw a big party.
1:30.1	And it goes into the confusion and conflicting emotions that that threw up, culminating in this very funny, at times sad, charming film.
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