Harassment when training, Zara Mohammed, Marie McCourt
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
A top-class Welsh athlete, one of the best, says the abuse that women get when out training has to stop. Rhiannon Linnington-Payne, who runs the 400 metres and is training for The Commonwealth Games, has spoken out about the harassment she's received when doing her daily training sessions on a road near her home. Other women say it happens to them too.
Zara Mohammed is the first woman, and the youngest person, to be leader of the Muslim Council of Britain. Her background is in Human Rights Law and she says it's her vision to "build a truly inclusive, diverse and representative body". She hopes her appointment will inspire more women and young people to take on leadership roles. She joins Emma to talk about her new role.
Marie McCourt's daughter, Helen, was murdered in February 1988. Her killer was convicted on overwhelming forensic evidence, but refused to reveal the location of her body. Marie, now 77, has never given up finding her. At the beginning on this year, Helen's Law came into effect which makes it a legal requirement for the Parole Board, when they make a decision about a murderer's release date, to consider their failure in disclosing the location of a victim. However, Marie wasn't able to prevent the release of Helen's murderer in 2020.
It's lockdown, and are you trying to carve out extra private spaces in your home? If you've got an open-plan set-up, are putting walls back up?* Are you finding space in a shed or a cupboard under the stairs? Mother of four, Amy Harty, has created an extra bedroom in her 3 bed house for just £140! She joins Emma to explain how, along with Laura Jane Clark, architect and expert on BBC Two’s Your Home Made Perfect. * Do check building and fire regulations.
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, it's Emma Barnet here. Welcome to the Woman's Our Podcast. podcasts. Amy Harty, you've got out her tools to create a second bedroom out of one to give her daughter |
| 0:54.3 | a room of her own so she could have some much needed space from her brothers for a mere 140 pounds. |
| 1:00.3 | Putting up walls, creating divides, rowing back on open plan living how have you changed your space during lockdown |
| 1:06.6 | How have you hacked it however limited perhaps a change is being |
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| 1:14.2 | Tensions of course very high especially if you haven't got that much space so perhaps you can't do any of these things and you want to tell us about how that feels as well. We are all ears to that. |
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| 1:34.0 | We will talk to Amy as well to hear what it's been like in her house since she made that change |
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