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Woman's Hour

Cush Jumbo, Church leader survivors, Exonerated sub-postmistress

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Cush Jumbo is the award-winning actor known for her roles on the stage and screen, from The Good Fight to Macbeth. She joins Clare McDonnell to discuss starring in - and executive producing – the new crime thriller series Criminal Record. Cush stars as DS June Lenker, a police detective locked in a confrontation with an older detective, played by Peter Capaldi, over a historic murder conviction.

A BBC investigation into one of Africa’s most influential pastors has uncovered hundreds of allegations of abuse, including a number of British victims. TB Joshua, who founded the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria, built an evangelical empire that drew presidents, Premier League footballers and millions of followers from across the globe - including from towns and cities across the UK. Multiple victims claim they repeatedly tried to raise the alarm with British authorities, including the Foreign Office, but an adequate investigation “never took place”. Two UK survivors of his abuse - Rae and Anneka - join Clare to discuss their experiences as ‘disciples’, why they left and the law changes they hope will result from this exposure.

The Post Office Horizon scandal is once more dominating the headlines. Today, a petition calling for the former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells to lose her CBE has received more than one million signatures, and yesterday the Prime Minister told the BBC the Government was reviewing options to help victims of the scandal. More than 700 branch managers were convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud based on faulty software. Currently, a public inquiry into the scandal is ongoing and the Metropolitan Police is investigating the Post Office over potential fraud offences arising from the prosecutions. One of the women who was falsely accused was Jo Hamilton. Her story has been told in the ITV drama Mr Bates vs. The Post Office, where she was played by the actor Monica Dolan. Jo joins Clare.

What do you do if your child refuses to go to school? Today, the Government is expected to announce funding for a new initiative aimed at tackling school absences in England. More than a fifth of secondary school pupils in England are persistently absent. The new scheme will see funding for school attendance mentors, an initiative which has been trialled in a pilot by the charity Barnardos. Clare speaks to Nadine Good from the charity, and hears from head teacher Simon Kidwell.

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I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts with a BBC.

0:07.4

My role is to give new and diverse creators a voice with the opportunity to build a career.

0:12.1

That's the thing I love about Podcast.

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But then you have the space to see where it goes.

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And doing that at the BBC means we can really run with the best stories

0:21.0

while developing the most unique audio talent.

0:24.0

So if you like what you hear, why not check out the huge range of

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podcast we've got on BBC Sounds.

0:30.3

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:34.0

Hello, this is Claire McDonnell and you're listening to the Women's Our podcast.

0:39.0

He was a man whose religious services would attract 50,000 people a week whose portrait sat on the desk

0:45.6

of Nelson Mandela's daughter and his funeral brought the streets of Lagos Nigeria

0:50.2

to a standstill as thousands flocked to pay their respects.

0:54.1

But today, we hear from two women who say they were sexually abused by that man, TB Joshua,

0:59.7

a charismatic Nigerian leader of one of the world's biggest evangelical churches. They are just two the around the world several times a week for nearly 20 years.

1:15.0

Star of stage and screen Kush Jumbo joins us as well.

1:18.3

Kush is one of the stars and also executive producers of the new Apple TV series Criminal Record.

1:24.0

She plays D.S. June Lincher, a police detective locked in a tug of war with an older

1:29.5

detective played by Peter Capaldi over an historic murder conviction.

1:35.0

Also, a school absences reach almost twice the level they were before the pandemic.

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