meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Woman's Hour

Jessica Moxham on life with a child with disabilities, Lord Macdonald and Harriet Wistritch, Noof Al Maadeed and Rothna Begum

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Emma Barnett talks to Jessica Moxham about her memoir "The Cracks that Let the Light in: What I learned from my disabled son." Also to Noof Al Maadeed and Rothna Begum about life for women in Qatar and the issue of male guardianship and the former Director of Public Prosecutions Lord Macdonald and Harriet Wistritch from the Centre for Womens Justice talk about the issue of "rape culture" in schools. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Tanzy Leitner

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to

0:07.4

Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Good morning, was it a happy Monday then? If you live in

0:12.4

England, did you go large last night? Or yesterday and the day I've already been told, tales

0:17.0

of watching quizzes, unforgusting for, only connect, candle lighting in the greenhouse

0:22.0

while planting tomato and courgettes seed, possibly with a podcast to mix it up. And Catherine

0:27.0

who's already tweeted to say, socialising, what's that exactly? Bed, school run, work,

0:32.3

school run, work, television, bed, repeat. Do tell us what you got up to with the first

0:37.4

taste of freedom of living in England, 84844 or perhaps it was the same as your usual

0:42.5

Monday night and on social media were at BBC Woman's Hour. I did invite two people round

0:47.6

from the same household just because I felt I ought to, now quite tired really. But on

0:51.9

today's programme, we're continuing with our discussion around what schools should

0:56.0

be doing to stop the abuse of girls, but without making criminals of teenage boys potentially

1:02.7

and how that is going to work. What we'd really like to ask for today, and we know it's

1:07.7

very difficult for teachers, not least because you're incredibly busy. But what is that

1:12.1

line between education and punishment? And if you're a teacher with experience of this,

1:17.3

get in touch with us. Do that today. You do not have to give your real name. We'd really

1:21.7

like to hear how you are dealing with this, have been dealing with this because there's

1:26.0

a lot of talks right now of help lines and inquiries and the government getting involved

1:31.0

and the department for education, police saying certain things. We're going to hear from

1:35.0

the former director of public prosecutions in a moment, but on the front line are teachers

1:39.8

dealing with allegations of abuse. How do you do it? How should we do it? Do you think

1:45.3

your school are doing a good job of it? 84844, do you get in touch with us and let us

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.