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Woman's Hour

Choreographer Jasmin Vardimon, Behind the Rage with Deeyah Khan, Met Police report, Motorcycling

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jasmin Vardimon is one of the UK’s leading choreographers and was awarded an MBE for services to dance in the late Queen’s final birthday honours list in June. This month Jasmin is bringing ALiCE - a new interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland - to the Sadler’s Wells. She is also opening a purpose-built dance centre in Kent where the Jasmin Vardimon Company will be based. She joins Jessica to talk about her work. Deeyah Khan is an Emmy, Bafta and Peabody winning filmmaker. Deeyah’s films have previously covered topics such as abortion in America, white supremacy, and why people become terrorists. Her latest film looks at domestic violence in the United States, hearing from voices rarely heard on the topic, the men who perpetrate violence towards their partners. Deeyah joins Jessica. Baroness Casey's interim report into the Metropolitan Police's disciplinary procedures has found that hundreds of Met police officers have been getting away with misconduct and even breaking the law. The new Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has today called for officers to be sacked, after the report found that their internal disciplinary system is racist and misogynist, and allegations of sexual misconduct or discrimination are less likely to result in a case to answer than other claims. It also found that repeat misconduct offenders have remained in post, with just 13 out of 1,809 officers with more than one case against them being sacked since 2013. Jessica speaks to Shabnam Chaudri, formerly a Detective Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police. Membership of the Women's International Motorcycle Association has increased by 50% in the last two years. And the world’s largest all-female biker meet took place in Leicestershire this summer, with over 1,500 women in attendance. But why is the number of female motorcyclists accelerating? Jessica talks to Karina Artun AKA Bike Like a Mum on Instagram, who started learning to ride in lockdown, and Sheonagh Ravensdale, Communications Director of the British Motorcyclists Federation. Women are selling sex to cope with the cost of living crisis, according to the English Collective of Prostitutes who have seen call levels to their helpline rise by a third in the last few months. Many women are turning to sex work for the first time, while others are returning, having left it behind. Pregnant Then Screwed have also been contacted by women in a similar position. Jessica speaks to a sex worker called Evie and Niki Adams of the English Collective of Prostitutes, a network of sex workers and supporters campaigning for the decriminalisation of prostitution.

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Women's Hour podcast. Good morning and welcome to the program. Now we've spoken many times

0:59.1

before about the cost of living crisis. Well now one group has told us that an

1:03.3

increasing number of women are turning to sex work to help pay the bills. We'll be talking

1:07.8

about that a little bit later this morning. Also, we'll be hearing from a rarely heard

1:12.2

voice when it comes to domestic violence and abuse. And that is the male perpetrator.

1:17.6

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, Dea Khan, will be joining us to discuss a new documentary

1:22.0

that focuses on men and why they are violent and how they can be helped to stop. Joining

1:26.8

us to will be Yasmin Varderman, one of the UK's leading choreographers, her new adaptation

1:32.0

of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland will be performed in London this month. We'll

1:36.2

be talking about that, her life and her evolution as a performer from Israel all the way through

1:41.2

to moving to the UK. As always, I'd like for you to get in touch with us. Today we're

1:45.8

asking if you have a hobby that surprises people. I'll be speaking to one woman who jumped

1:50.8

on a motorbike last year and hasn't looked back. In fact, the number of women interested

1:56.2

in motorbike in has gone up significantly in the past two years. Traditionally seen as

2:00.8

a male dominated pastime, but women often get raised eyebrows when they turn up in

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