Kevin Spacey: what happens when #MeToo goes to court?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Kevin Spacey made his first court appearance today over allegations of sexual assault. He entered the court surrounded by a media scrum, one that has accompanied the #MeToo movement since it began over a year ago. But the huge attention the campaign has attracted so far hasn’t been matched by criminal convictions or court appearances. As well as the difficulty in prosecuting sexual assault allegations, what added complications come with putting a celebrity on trial? The BBC’s Nada Tawfik, and lawyers Gloria Allred and Kirsty Brimelow QC, consider whether a famous person can get a fair trial. Producers: Duncan Barber, Harriet Noble and Philly Beaumont Mixed by: Nico Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price and this is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.7	We ask one big question of one big story every weekday.
0:14.3	Today what happens when me too goes to court? I know what you want. Oh sure they may have tried to separate us but what we have
0:41.3	is too strong it's too powerful I mean after all we
0:44.9	shared everything you and I I told you my deepest darkest secrets I showed you
0:51.1	exactly what people are capable of I showed you exactly what people are capable of.
0:54.0	I shocked you with my honesty, but mostly I challenged you and made you think.
0:59.0	And you
1:04.1	shouldn't.
1:05.4	Did you see that video? Let me be frank. I clicked on it early on Christmas morning
1:10.7	when I was waiting for the cattle to boil.
1:13.4	And it was just weird.
1:15.9	Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood from House of Cards, but also in a strange way being himself, telling us not to believe everything that we hear about him.
1:26.0	Now the videos had nine and a half million views since December the 24th.
1:31.0	And today we're seeing him again in the real world in court
1:34.6	where he's appearing to hear criminal charges against him that he assaulted a
1:39.3	teenager in a bar in 2016. Now the hearings in a place called Nantucket on the northeast coast of the U.S.
1:46.2	and I called up the BBC's Nedatorfique who's been covering the Me Too movement since it started,
1:51.3	who's in Nantucket to see Spacey in court.
1:54.0	Nantucket is a tiny island off of Massachusetts.
1:59.0	It's kind of the second home to billionaires here in the United States.
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