Esther Rutter on the knitted bikini, Sally Challen and composer Suzanne Ciani
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Esther Rutter on the secret feminist history of knitting.
Sally Challen was jailed for 22 years for killing her husband Richard in 2011. She was released earlier this year after a change in the law on coercive control. She talks to Jane about her marriage, her sentence and what it’s like to be a free woman.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag won three separate awards at this years Emmy’s - what's behind her success?
Jennie Joseph, a UK trained midwife, tells us about her work in the US reducing maternal and perinatal mortality among black women and other women of colour. Plus could you continue to love your son if he was accused of violent sexual crimes? And the five time Grammy award nominated composer and electronic music artist Suzanne Ciani on her career spanning 40 years.
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor Beverley Purcell
Guest; Emma Bullimore Guest; Hetta Howes Guest; Tracy-Ann Oberman Guest; Anupama Chandrasekhar Guest; Sally Challen Guest; Esther Rutter Guest; Jennie Joseph Guest; Suzanne Ciani
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:08.9 | This week you can hear from Sally Challenn who was jailed for the murder of her husband |
| 0:13.2 | and had her sentence reduced only after the introduction of coercive control as a crime. |
| 0:19.6 | She talks about her marriage, her sentence and how it now feels to be free. |
| 0:24.9 | With her Emmy's wins this week, what next for the British Megastar Phoebe Walla Bridge? |
| 0:30.4 | And why does so many black women suffer when it comes to their maternal health? |
| 0:35.0 | A woman of colour perhaps an African descent woman may have different treatments, simply |
| 0:40.0 | because of her colour. |
| 0:41.5 | One of the things we know across both continents is that black women especially are not |
| 0:45.5 | listened to, not believed. |
| 0:47.6 | People are dying for being ignored. |
| 0:50.0 | Some important stuff from Jenny Joseph on Weekend Woman's Hour this week. |
| 0:54.1 | And you can also hear from the composer and electronic music artist Susanne Chiani. |
| 0:58.4 | She'll tell us about her 40-year career, oh and knitted swimwear. |
| 1:03.4 | Everything you didn't know, you needed to know. |
| 1:06.1 | So I made a bikini from yarn spun in the borders and I tested it in Northumberland and |
| 1:11.9 | I'm very, very relieved to say that it stayed put. |
| 1:15.8 | It was a bit like a wet suit and that it gradually kind of took on water but that actually |
| 1:19.0 | kept me very warm because wool can absorb up to 30% of its own weight in water before |
| 1:23.4 | it stopped losing any of its insulating capacity. |
| 1:26.4 | There we are, the voice of the writer Esther Rotter, more from her later in the programme. |
| 1:31.7 | In 2011 Sally Chalan was jailed for 22 years for the murder of her husband Richard. |
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