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Woman's Hour

Lockdown anniversary, Nicola Sturgeon, Misogyny as a hate crime

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's exactly a year since Boris Johnson delivered the instruction to stay at home. To mark the occasion, we've assembled three women of different ages, backgrounds and circumstances to discuss their experiences of being confined for the most part in the home. Actor and author Sheila Hancock and writers Kerry Hudson and Yasmin Rahman join Emma.

The future of Nicola Sturgeon has been in the balance in recent weeks as she's faced not one but two major inquiries. Yesterday afternoon an independent inquiry by James Hamilton QC cleared the First Minister of breaching the ministerial code. But this morning a separate cross-party committee of inquiry said the Scottish government's handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond was "seriously flawed", that Nicola Sturgeon had misled their inquiry in her evidence and that women had been badly let down by the government. Political correspondent Alex Massie, crime writer Val McDermid and Alex Massie from the Spectator join Emma.

Last week’s announcement that the police in England and wales are going to start recording misogyny as a hate crime in the wake of the killing of Sarah Everard was heralded as a victory by many women’s rights campaigners but that reaction has been far from uniform. Many groups working in the arena of domestic abuse and violence against women actually think it could be counter productive and even make the situation worse. We talk to Dr Fiona Vera-Gray from the University of Durham who has written The Right Amount of Panic who thinks the move to change the law is a knee jerk reaction and also to Professor Louise Mallany who has worked with Nottinghamshire Police which has recorded misogyny as a hate crime since 2016

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Fladiated.

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:35.0

Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womonsa from BBC Radio 4.

0:40.0

Good morning.

0:41.0

Today is 12 months since the Prime Minister told us all to stay home, save lives and protect

0:46.2

the NHS because of COVID-19 and the spread of it. Because of that, perhaps today you'll be participating in the minute's silence at noon or lighting

0:55.2

a candle on your doorstep this evening, thinking of those 126,000 who have lost their lives

1:00.4

this year.

1:01.4

Perhaps you'll also be doing your own soul-searching

1:03.8

about what the last year has meant for you and your sense of self, family and

1:08.0

relationships. Of course there was no small irony for women in particular

1:11.9

being told to stay at home after decades of battling to be able to free themselves from the domestic setting and some women are still nowhere near that.

1:20.0

But looking to the future as we cautiously plan for various stages of unlocking

1:24.7

facilitated by vaccination, do you want your old pre-Covid life back?

1:30.4

Are there things you just cannot wait to return to? Or are there going to be some big changes, small

1:36.8

changes, something in the middle? Perhaps the two lives actually aren't that different and

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