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🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Matt Chorley speaks to Jihyun Park who was tortured and persecuted in North Korea before coming to Britain, where she is now standing in the local elections.
PLUS: Libby Purves and Rachel Sylvester on the weird obsession with violence against women in books and films.
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| 1:09.7 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast, I'm Matt Chawley, bringing you the best of my times |
| 1:22.4 | radio show. You can listen to it all live, 10 to 1 Monday to Thursday, but we bring you the very |
| 1:27.2 | best bits at an absolute crack at the day. The extraordinary story of Geon Park, who escaped |
| 1:34.6 | North Korea not once, but twice, eventually made her way to the UK where she's standing for election |
| 1:42.0 | and the local elections in May this year. She tells me her extraordinary story. You're not going to |
| 1:46.3 | want to miss that, that's coming up in the episode very shortly. But first, as ever, we kick off |
| 1:51.3 | with our columnist panel, telling us what they really think about the news and it's a Monday, |
| 1:56.1 | so it must be Libby Rachel, it's Libby Pervis and Rachel Sylvester. |
| 2:04.8 | Well, let's start with the story, which has just dominated in the last few days. Obviously, |
| 2:10.2 | the sad death of Sarah Everard followed by the visual at the weekend and the |
| 2:15.4 | net police is handling of it and becoming a real sort of political issue. What do you, |
| 2:22.8 | what do you make of it, first of all, Libby? Well, I wish to God they hadn't banned the |
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