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🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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How can we have a healthier relationship with tech, the internet and social media? In her new book Disconnected, podcaster Emma Gannon looks at how we can take back control, set boundaries, and unlearn bad habits from doomscrolling to having opinions for opinion’s sake. She also reflects on whether a constructive call-out culture is more beneficial than cancel culture online.
Helen Pankhurst, the granddaughter and the great-granddaughter of Suffragettes, Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst talks about the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill which the House of Lords will debate on Monday. Helen argues our right to protest which is a fundamental part of democracy, is under threat. Reflecting on historical and global parallels, she argues that protest is both a safety valve and catalyst for change in the fight for equality, including women’s rights, race, disability, social inequality and climate.
Plus can theatre be used as a health and wellbeing tool to support women’s understanding of their relationship with sex? A Play About Sex partners academic research with creative practice to find out. Independent theatre producer, Hannah Farley-Hills explains how.
Prince Andrew is to face a civil case in the US over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17, after his legal bid to have it thrown out failed. To help us understand the detail of why it was unsuccessful we hear from Dominic Casciani our Home and Legal Affairs Correspondent. Plus Georgina Calvert-Lee, an employment and equality lawyer at McAlister Olivarius, an expert on NDAs and settlements looks at what justice might look like from Virginia Giuffre's position
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0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:39.6 | Protest forms a theme of our discussions today ahead of a bill being debated in the House of Lords on Monday |
0:45.2 | that if passed would see significant changes to the laws that govern protesting in this country. |
0:50.1 | Of course, it's in the air, not least within the Conservative Party. |
0:53.7 | As the Prime Minister tries to quell protests and opposition in his own ranks after his |
0:57.8 | apology and admission in the House of Commons yesterday that he did attend a |
1:02.2 | Downing Street Party in May 2020 while the |
1:04.8 | rest of the country was locked down, believing he was at a work event. While many |
1:09.9 | cabinet ministers have come out to support him, other high-profile conservatives |
1:14.4 | have called for his resignation, not least the leader of the Scottish Tories. |
1:18.8 | Protest comes in many forms and one of my guests today says her grandmother Sylvia Panker, suffragette and daughter of the suffragette leader Emeline |
1:27.0 | would be turning in her grave over this government's proposed law changes to control it. |
1:32.0 | And yet others will welcome such proposals which we'll go |
1:34.8 | through shortly, remembering the disruption caused by certain protests last |
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