Gloria Allred, Monica Ali, Val McDermid

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Gloria Allred is probably the best known women’s rights lawyer in the US. Equally loved, feared and deemed controversial by some, for nearly half a century she's represented women in high profile cases involving Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, R Kelly, Donald Trump. She talks to Woman's Hour about the situation facing the Duke of York, the possible retrial of Ghislaine Maxwell & her admiration for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Vile text messages have come to light which were shared between police officers belonging to the Metropolitan Police. The IOPC has said: "We believe these incidents are not isolated or simply the behaviour of a few 'bad apples'." The Met has said that it is 'sorry'. We get reaction from Zoe Billingham, former Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Shabnam Chaudhri, who served as an officer in the Met for 30 years. Monica Ali wrote her bestseller Brick Lane nearly 20 years ago. Her new book is called Love Marriage. It's about two families who are brought together when Yasmin and Joe fall in love. Scottish crime writer, Val McDermid, has stopped sponsoring a football club that's been part of her life since she was a baby. She's finished supporting Raith Rovers because it's signed up David Goodwillie who, in a Scottish civil case in 2017, was found to have raped a woman. He was fined £100,000. Val says she can't see herself ever going back to Raith Rovers.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:09.9	Shortly I'm going to read out some text messages sent between police officers
0:14.0	included in a new report exposing a toxic culture at the heart of the Metropolitan Police.
0:20.4	But I like being honest with you and I'm going to share with you that it is not appropriate
0:24.6	during a morning broadcast programme to read most of those messages out
0:29.0	because they are so vile, abusive and offensive, much of the abuse aimed at women.
0:35.1	You may recall last week my interview with the academic Dr. Kosh Keduff who took on the same police force
0:40.9	and won an apology and damages after she was stripped searched with male and police officers
0:46.4	afterwards recorded joking about her smelly knickers and heriness.
0:50.9	If you've read the news stories about the independent office for police conducts report which has
0:56.3	exposed these messages from 2016 through to 2018, you may have a view about what needs to change.
1:03.6	But if you haven't, we will shortly fill you in and then I'm all ears.
1:07.2	How do you change a culture? What is the problem? What is going on?
1:12.8	You can text Woman's Hour on 84844, text will be charged at your standard message rate.
1:17.2	I'm ready to receive them on social media. It's at BBC Woman's Hour or email me through the
1:22.1	Woman's Hour website. Also on today's programme, she's back with her fifth novel having
1:27.7	gone through a period of never wanting to write again and almost 20 years after Brick Lane,
1:32.8	the author Monica Alley will be with me in the studio. The American Women's Rights lawyer,
1:37.6	Gloria Allred, you'll hear from her. She continues to represent 20 accusers of Jeffrey Epstein
1:42.8	and offers her view on the potential for a retrial of Gilein Maxwell and the latest on Prince Andrew's
1:48.4	situation. Plus, Val McDermott, the crime author, on why she cannot support her football team any longer.
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