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Woman's Hour

Female Refugees, Karen Maine director of Yes God, Yes, Women and their Scars

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for Britain and France to work together to stop migrant boats crossing the Channel to Dover. On Friday a record number of unaccompanied migrant children arrived in the UK. The 23 youths were taken into the care of Kent County Council, on top of the 70 who arrived in July. According to the latest Home Office Statistics 90% of young (under 18) unaccompanied refugees who come in to the UK every year are male. What happens to the ten percent who are female? We hear from Dinah Beckett from Migration Yorkshire and Sharon Pearson who’s fostered Elsa.

Yes God, Yes is a new film about 16 year old Alice growing up a Catholic and attending Catholic school in the early noughties in Midwest America During a chat on AOL she discovers masturbation and is overwhelmed with guilt. Seeking redemption, she attends a religious retreat to try and suppress her urges. Karen Maine, is the director..

Part of our series about women and scars: we meet Laura who is 27 – she’s a care worker from Caerphilly in South Wales and she is a burns survivor.

In 1920, a hundred years ago, the American Congress passed the 19th Amendment which gave women in the United States the right to vote. There had been an active and vociferous suffragette movement, led by some well known names – Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony. The name of Lucy Stone is less familiar. She wanted votes for all, regardless of sex or race. Moira Hickey went to her birthplace, West Brookfield, Massachusetts in 2018 to join the celebration of the bicentenary of Lucy Stone’s birth.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Reporter: Ena Miller Reporter: Moira Hickey Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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0:34.8

Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Women's Our podcast for Tuesday the 11th of August.

0:40.8

Good morning.

0:42.2

In today's program, Karen Main's film, Yes, God Yes. It's about Alice, a young Roman Catholic who learns about certain sexual practices on the internet and is consumed by guilt. Will a religious retreat

0:56.4

help her suppress her natural urges. The next in our series about scars and how we live with them.

1:04.0

Laura suffered terrible burns when she was a baby.

1:07.6

And a hundred years since American women won the right to vote,

1:11.2

who was Lucy Stone, the founder of the Women's Journal, intended to spread the word on suffrage?

1:20.0

Now the small boats bringing migrants across the channel have topped the news

1:24.5

agenda this week. The Prime Minister has called for Britain and France to work

1:28.5

together to stop the crossings coming into Dover. Around 700 people have landed in the past few days and

1:35.4

on Friday a record number of children arrived in the UK. The 23 youths were

1:41.7

taken into the care of Kent County Council, added to the 70 who arrived in July.

1:48.0

The latest Home Office Statistics say 90% of unaccompanied refugees under the age of 18 every year are male.

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