Jessie & Lennie Ware, Christina Lamb, Barriers to disclosing sexual violence.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We hear from the singer turned interviewer Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie about their hit podcast Table Manners, where they cook dinner for a different celebrity every week. They’ve turned their favourite recipes into a cook book.
Black Women and sexual violence. What are the cultural barriers making it difficult for black women to discuss and disclose sexual violence? And what is cultural betrayal theory?
Chief Foreign correspondent Christina Lamb tells us about her new book ‘Our Bodies Their Battlefield'. And we talk about the signficance of Women’s History Month with Professor Selina Todd and Professor Krista Cowman.
Presenter Jane Garvey. Producer Siobhann Tighe
Interviewed guests: Jessie Ware Lennie Ware Christina Lamb Leanne Levers Jennifer Gómez Selina Todd Krista Cowman
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| 0:41.0 | Hello, good afternoon. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Aha. |
| 0:45.0 | And this week you can hear from the Sunday Times Chief Foreign Correspondent Christina Lamb. |
| 0:50.4 | She's written a brilliant new book about sexual violence in wartime. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll also meet the stars of the hit podcast, Table Maners. |
| 0:58.5 | They are the singer-songwriter Jesse Ware and her mom Lenny. |
| 1:02.0 | That's a little bit later, but we start with a conversation |
| 1:05.6 | about the legacy of the American basketball star Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter |
| 1:10.8 | crash in January, alongside eight other people including his 13 year old daughter. |
| 1:16.8 | Kobe was much more around the world and his legacy was celebrated, but other people did highlight an incident in his past. In 2003, he'd been accused of sexual |
| 1:28.0 | assault. The case was dropped after the accuser refused to testify. He later apologized to the woman and to her family. |
| 1:36.5 | Opinions are now split on how he should be remembered and it sparked a debate around |
| 1:41.5 | race and gender in the states, in particular the way that |
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