Feminist porn, Karen Millen, I Can Hear The Cuckoo, Forced marriage
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Erika Lust makes adult films that focus on female pleasure, diversity and what she calls ethical production. She has big ideas about how to change the porn industry and joins Anita Rani in the studio to discuss them.
Karen Millen, creator of the eponymous fashion brand has created a new collection over 40-years after she set up her first shop. She sold the business in 2004, but in later years she filed for bankruptcy. Now aged 61, Millen is returning to designing clothes. She joins Anita to talk about the highs and lows of her life so far, and starting over.
Forced marriage has been illegal in England and Wales since 2014, but a study jointly by the Universities of Lincoln and Bristol, has revealed that the crime remains rife. Their research on the use of Forced Marriage Protection Orders, designed to prevent forced marriages, used data from nearly 600 case files from police forces nationwide. Anita is joined by the criminologist, Professor Aisha Gill, one of the leads on the research, who is proposing new measures to protect victims.
Journalist Kiran Sidhu moved from London to the Welsh countryside after the death of her mother. She has written a memoir about what she learnt there of grief, community and unlikely friendships, ‘I Can Hear the Cuckoo’.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Rebecca Myatt Studio manager: Michael Millham
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, welcome to the programme, quite an hour lined up for you all today. |
| 0:16.4 | We've got a couple of women on the programme who've experienced highs and lows in some |
| 0:20.9 | way and made a decision to cut their losses and start again. |
| 0:24.8 | Karen Millen, the woman originally behind the High Street Fashion Brand, will be joining |
| 0:28.7 | me to share her story about selling her business for a fortune, losing everything and now |
| 0:33.4 | starting again. |
| 0:34.4 | Also, Karen Siddu, she's written a memoir about leaving behind her London life and moving |
| 0:39.5 | to rural Wales after the death of her mother. |
| 0:42.6 | So this morning, I'd like to hear your stories of major change. |
| 0:47.0 | When have you cut your losses to start again? |
| 0:50.1 | What was the event that made you decide that life needed to change? |
| 0:54.0 | And what did you do? |
| 0:55.0 | Was it after a divorce? |
| 0:56.5 | Post lockdown? |
| 0:57.8 | Or a death? |
| 0:58.8 | Was it a dream? |
| 0:59.6 | And a piphany? |
| 1:00.6 | A life-changing trip? |
| 1:02.1 | Or simply being inspired by someone else's story? |
| 1:05.9 | What are you doing now with your life? |
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