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Woman's Hour

Knife crime, Women and Equalities Minister Penny Mordaunt, Waitress the musical

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

How do you keep your children safe from knife crime? We hear from youth worker Elaine Donnellon, and two mothers Yvonne Lawson and Rachel Webb whose sons died from knife attacks.

The Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mordaunt on the government campaign to end period poverty globally by 2030.

Katherine McPhee and Sara Bareilles on their new West End musical Waitress.

The Israeli writer and psychologist Ayelet Gundar Goshen on her new novel The Liar.

The former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard and the founder and director of WOW on the progress towards gender equality around the world.

The journalist Melanie Reid had a riding accident breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back in 2010. She's written her memoir, The World I Fell Out Of.

How has Kylie Jenner managed to become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at just 21? Nyree Ambarchian, a founder of the branding agency Stand and cultural commentator Bolu Babalola discuss.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Dianne McGregor Editor: Jane Thurlow

Transcript

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0:34.4

Good afternoon. This week has been full of shocking events where young people have been the victims of knife crime.

0:43.2

We talked to two mothers whose sons were stabbed to death

0:47.2

about how parents might be able to protect their children.

0:50.7

I always used to check my knives. I always spoke to the children about knives. If one knife went missing, my house was on lockdown until we found that knife.

0:58.0

The journalist, Melanie Reed, has written about the accident in 2010 when she fell from her horse.

1:05.3

There were though surprising benefits to spending a year in a spinal injuries unit.

1:11.2

We were there alongside each other, professionals the aristocrats the people who were

1:16.7

addicted to drinking drugs the villains the people who've been stabbed it's it was like a maternity unit on steroids. We talked to the Israeli novelist Ayelle

1:27.8

at Gondagoshan about her book Liar. What fascinated her about the impact of telling a lie?

1:36.0

The musical, the waitress, what's behind the success of a story set in an American diner?

1:42.0

Kylie Jenner was dubbed the youngest ever self-made billionaire,

1:47.0

but how self-made can a member of the Kardashian family be said to be.

1:53.0

And for International Women's Day

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