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Woman's Hour

Hook ups, Identity Politics & Feminism, Surviving Grooming Gang in Rotherham

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jane Garvey talks to a woman who survived being groomed by a gang in Rotherham, also to Yasmin Alibhai Brown and Ruby Hamad about identity politics and feminism and we hear from the older women who enjoy dating younger men. Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Matilda Macari

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

Hi, this is Jane Garvey and it's the Woman's Hour podcast from Friday, October the 9th,

0:11.0

2020.

0:12.0

Hello, good morning to you.

0:13.0

Somehow we've all got to Friday, so thank goodness for that.

0:16.2

Today on the program, really what I hope will be a really interesting conversation.

0:19.9

Our guests are Yasmin Alabai Brown and Ruby Hamad and we're discussing why white feminists

0:26.5

have let women of colour down or have they, what degree have they done, exactly that.

0:32.9

At BBC Woman's Hour on Twitter, if you want to get involved on that one, also somebody

0:37.1

who proved to be quite a talking point yesterday was our guest Richard.

0:41.4

He was a 28 year old man, that's not his real name either, who was enjoying a string of

0:45.8

relationships with older women he'd found via a dating app.

0:49.8

Now a lot of reaction to Richard, today you can hear from Eva who is a woman in her

0:55.1

40s, who's been hooking up with much younger men, so we'll get her side of her story on

1:01.0

the program today.

1:02.0

And we've also got some wonderful emails from you on that subject, including stories

1:06.3

about your own experiences and relationships and how much you've got out of them.

1:11.1

So that's a little later in the program today.

1:14.3

First of all, a survivor of child sexual abuse in Rotherham has told the BBC that she

1:19.0

is petrified, because Ashgarh Boston, the man who raped her when she was 14 and 15,

1:25.4

has been moved now to an open prisoner, category D, jail, and she wasn't told about it.

1:32.4

Now once an offender goes to a prison like this, they may be allowed out to work in the

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