Cyntoia Long-Brown, Being Fat, Children and Climate Change
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In 2006, 16 year old Cyntoia Brown-Long was sentenced as an adult to life in prison for killing a man while she was a teenage sex trafficking victim. Granted clemency in January this year and released in August, she tells us about her childhood and the impact of 16 years in prison.
As same sex marriage becomes available in the new year in Northern Ireland, we hear from Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles, the first couple in the UK to get a civil partnership fifteen years ago.
The Danish comic and podcaster Sofie Hagen says she's 'a fat liberationist who wants to abolish the systemic discrimination and abuse fat people endure on a daily basis'. So what's your experience of being fat? We hear from the plus-size model Bischamber Das and from listeners Farah, Les, Jo and Karen.
The Oscar-winning American actress Regina King has been named as one of the most influential people of 2019. She tells us about her leading role in the drama Watchmen.
What's the best way to talk to children about climate change, and are schools doing enough to educate this new generation? Caroline Hickman, a climate change researcher at the University of Bath, the eco-activist Ella Man and Fiona Cowen, the pre-school climate change headteacher at Bolsover Infants discuss.
Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Siobhann Tighe
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Good afternoon. On Monday, abortion in Northern Ireland was decriminalised and equal marriage |
| 0:11.2 | will be available in the new year. What does it mean to the lesbian couple who've been |
| 0:16.5 | civil partners for 15 years? The abuse and criticism faced by people who are stigmatised |
| 0:24.4 | because they're fat. |
| 0:25.9 | Late loss for me was important because I was starting to feel the side effects in terms |
| 0:29.8 | of my health. The reason why I couldn't lose weight much earlier on is because I constantly |
| 0:34.8 | felt trapped in this cycle where I was being bullied by people around me thinking that they're |
| 0:40.3 | encouraging me when they weren't. |
| 0:43.2 | And we hear some of what you had to say in a phoning programme. |
| 0:47.9 | As climate change is discussed on an almost daily basis and protests have appeared all |
| 0:53.6 | over the country, how important is it for children to understand what's going on? |
| 0:58.9 | The amount of children who play in natural places has decreased massively over the last decade |
| 1:04.0 | from half to like less than one in ten I think. And this is extremely dangerous because |
| 1:08.4 | obviously if you don't have experience of being in the natural world you're not going to want |
| 1:12.2 | to protect it. If the most niche that you've experienced is the little bit of grass outside your |
| 1:15.9 | house you're not going to fight to protect that. |
| 1:20.0 | And Regina King, Oscar winner and one of times most influential people of 2019 on her role |
| 1:27.2 | in the new TV drama Watchman. In 2006 a young woman was sentenced to life imprisonment in America |
| 1:36.6 | a term of 51 years for killing a man. Sintoya Brown Long was 16 when she shot Johnny Allen and |
| 1:45.5 | even though she was still a child she was sentenced as an adult. Her case attracted a lot of attention |
| 1:52.8 | when it was discovered she'd been a victim of sex trafficking and after serving 15 years of her |
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