Losing your possessions, Defining honour abuse, Foster caring
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
What’s like to start again with nothing? On New Year's Eve of 2018, journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire in Croydon, where she'd stowed all her possessions. She has written about it in the book, Lost & Found - 9 life-changing lessons about stuff from someone who lost everything. She joins Hayley Hassall to describe her experience and explain why we get so emotionally attached to our belongings.
The BBC Series I Kissed a Girl started over the weekend... it's the first UK dating show for gay women. Dannii Minogue hosts the show where ten single women are matched up with a partner to see if sparks will fly and the women will find love. In the first episode, all the women are matched with a partner and start getting to know each other. Comedian Catherine Bohart and TV critic Daisy Jones discuss.
The number of children in care is continuing to rise each year, and every year thousands of new foster carers are needed. The comedian and writer Kiri Pritchard-McLean has done just that. During lockdown, Kiri and her partner embarked on a journey to become foster carers in north Wales and she’s ‘evangelical’ about the role. It’s the subject of her new seven-month comedy tour, Peacock.
The charity Karma Nirvana has today written to the victims and safeguarding minister Laura Farris, calling for the government to introduce a statutory definition of honour abuse. The charity’s executive director Natasha Rattu explains why, alongside a woman we are calling ‘Dana’ who is a victim of this abuse, who describes her experiences and what a statutory definition would mean to her.
Presenter: Hayley Hassall Producer: Kirsty Starkey Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm Helena Bonkarter and this is history's secret heroes. |
| 0:07.0 | In this series we'll hear stories of daring secret missions and rarely heard tales from World War II, like Emily, the enigmatic high-ranking |
| 0:17.2 | codebreaker, and Tremont, the escape artist, interned in a German camp. |
| 0:24.0 | Tales of danger, dynamism and downright determination. |
| 0:27.8 | The new series of history's secret heroes. |
| 0:30.5 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello, I'm Haley Hassel and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. Hello there and welcome to the |
| 0:44.7 | to the program. |
| 0:45.7 | Today many women who have all had experience of honor-based abuse |
| 0:49.9 | have signed a letter and they've sent it to the victims and safeguarding Minister Laura Ferris, |
| 0:55.0 | asking for there to be a statutory definition of honour-based abuse in our law. |
| 1:00.0 | Now this comes after a call from the Women's and Equality's Committee was rejected by the government last year in September. |
| 1:06.0 | Well I'll be speaking to Dana, it's not her real name, but she's coming to talk to me about the real and terrifying experiences she was subjected to by her family |
| 1:16.4 | and how she feels that making honor-based abuse a statutory legal definition is imperative in getting the abuse women like her suffer heard and acted upon |
| 1:27.3 | before it's too late. And imagine putting all our worldly belongings away into a storage container for safekeeping. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm talking your everything, your furniture, your clothes, your photos, your jewelry, |
| 1:39.9 | even your childhood toys and your qualification certificates everything and when you thought |
| 1:44.0 | they were all safe, all locked up well they all go up in flames. I know it's something that |
| 1:50.4 | nightmares are made of but for my guest Helen Chandler Wild that is something that nightmare are made of. But for my guest Helen Chandler Wild, |
| 1:54.0 | that is exactly what happened to her. |
| 1:56.0 | And she'll be here to tell me all about it, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.