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Woman's Hour

Lavinia Greenlaw, Lindsay Duncan, the Irish mother and baby homes scandal

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The names of Jeffrey Epstein's associates are likely to be published today, after a judge in the US ordered the release of court documents. Epstein took his own life after he was accussed of sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls. Names connected to him have previously been anonymised as John or Jane Doe; but now around 170 people, mostly men, will have their association with the former financier made public. Joan Smith, journalist and author, and Georgina Calvert-Lee, an equality lawyer at Bellevue Law, tell Emma Barnett what the list will mean.

Lavinia Greenlaw is one of the country's leading poets and has now published a selected edition of her work, covering three decades of writing. She tells Emma about her new role as poetry editor at Faber, the first woman to hold the position. She is now the custodian of a back catalogue that includes TS Eliot, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and the gatekeeper for aspiring poets of the next generation.

It is ten years since journalist Alison O’Reilly revealed that up to 796 babies were buried in a mass, unmarked grave in the grounds of a former mother and baby home in Galway in Ireland. The Irish government has promised compensation but none has been paid out. Is this now about to change? Alison joins Emma to discuss the latest developments.

And how far would you go to help a friend? In Lindsay Duncan's new drama, Truelove, on Channel 4, a drunken reunion at a funeral leads a group of friends to make a pact: they will support each other in assisted dying rather than let a friend suffer alone. Lindsay tells Emma how a thriller starring a cast in their 70s and 80s is turning the police procedural on its head.

Producer: Hannah Sander Presenter: Emma Barnett

Transcript

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BBC Sounds BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4. Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:45.0

My first of 2024 and it feels good to say the year aloud because I have to say

0:50.0

since leaving school I've always felt slightly bereft that I don't write the date down

0:54.2

anywhere for some time so it doesn't feel official that the year has changed.

0:58.9

Plus we're coming out of that fog that no man's land that personally I can't stand between Christmas and New Year and

1:04.2

goes rather stale on me. So it's good to feel like we are starting again and to be with you

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this morning. In my case a proper bra is back on, handbag cleaned out, nearly, and a new notebook on the go.

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So let me ask you this if you dare to share, care to share, what makes you feel like you are back at it?

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I'm not asking for resolutions, I'm not asking for

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predictions, but what makes you feel a little bit like you're back in the swing of

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things? I think we can all help each other with that this morning. The number you

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need is 84844. That's the number to

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