Clean Break, PTSD Partners, Sizeism

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Clean Break is a theatre company that works with women in prison or have been in prison. Clean Break is now 40 years old. and as part of their birthday celebrations one of their plays is on in the West End of London. It's called [BLANK] and is at the Donmar Warehouse. It looks at the experiences of women behind bars and the impact on their families and across society. Jacqueline Holborough the co-founder of Clean Break comes on the programme together with the play’s director, Maria Aberg and one of the actors, Lucy Edkins.

We have the second in our series about the partners of soldiers with PTSD. Today we hear from Becky, who's 40 and a mum of two. She's known her husband since they were teenagers but she tells our reporter, Tamsin Smith, how PTSD infiltrated their relationship as soon as they moved into military married quarters.

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0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.6	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.6	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
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1:04.0	Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour Podcast for Wednesday, the 23rd of October.
1:10.0	In 1979, a theatre group called Clean Break was formed by a group of women who'd experienced
1:17.6	prison.
1:18.6	This year, on their 40th anniversary, there's a play at the Donmar in London.
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