Electing to home school. Trisha Goddard on the power of Oprah.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As Children return to school across the UK an increasing number of parents are choosing to educate their children at home on a permanent basis. Many have enjoyed home schooling their kids during Covid and see it as an opportunity to explore a new way of learning. Critics however are concerned that it’s unregulated. We hear from Gail Tolley from the Association of Directors of Children's Services and to Hannah Titley from the Home Schooling Association.

Trisha Goddard who had her own UK day time talk show for over a decade on why Oprah is the Queen of confessional TV interviews. Plus Stephanie Guerilus, senior editor and staff writer at the Grio, an American website with news and video content geared toward African Americans, tells us how the interview gone down with the American audience

For over 20 years, Maria Cahill has stood by her claims that she was raped by a member of the IRA when she was 16, and was retraumatised when the issue was handled by a IRA kangaroo court. But a few days ago The Guardian newspaper issued an apology to her regarding a controversial article published in 2014. The journalist? Roy Greenslade, who used to write for The Guardian and later became a lecturer in journalism and ethics. Two weeks ago he disclosed that he was a supporter of the IRA and a member of Sinn Fein - a revelation that has caused major ripples, even prompting comment from the Prime Minister In that article from 2014, he criticised the BBC documentary which revealed Mairia's story for failing to include the fact that she belonged to an anti-Sinn Fein political party at one time. She tells Emma why she thinks the article and his recent disclosure of his political affiliations which were hidden at the time - undermine what she'd been through as a survivor of a rape, continuing to add insult to injury.

Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. years Maria Carhill had stood by her claims of rape by an IRA member but recent
0:54.8	events including an apology from the Guardian newspaper have brought it all up again.
0:59.4	We'll talk to Maria about that. We also examine the rise of educating children at home, not
1:04.9	homeschooling as we have come to know it there is a big difference but what is
1:08.4	prompting the rise and should there be a national database from the government with regards to the number of children
1:15.3	being educated in the home or certainly away from school. But first we're going to look at the one definite
1:21.7	winner from last night's interview with the Duke
1:24.1	and Duchess of Sussex. I say last night that's when it was available to UK audiences and that
1:28.8	winner is Oprah. We're going to look at how she changed broadcasting, our relationship with famous people,
1:35.0	even the way that perhaps we talk about ourselves and what we share and what we don't share.
1:40.0	The British TV host Tricia Godard will be joining me shortly.
1:43.7	I'm sure she's got many things to share perhaps about the interview but also about her own experiences.
1:49.2	What I wanted to ask you this morning, as Megan and Harry talk about their fairy tale ending to the Queen of
1:55.8	daytime television, what do you believe the next step is for? The Queen, Her Majesty, the Queen,
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