Lyra McKee's book 'Angels With Blue Faces'
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast on Friday, the 2nd of August. |
| 0:11.3 | 200 years ago, a prison was opened in Brixton in South London. It was the first to house |
| 0:17.4 | only women and Emma Barton was its governor. How does it fare today as a resettlement jail |
| 0:23.1 | for male offenders with a female deputy governor? |
| 0:27.0 | In the 2nd of our reports on domestic abuse in rural areas, we assess the progress of |
| 0:32.2 | the scheme run by Scottish women's aid called Ask Me. And what do older women like to |
| 0:38.5 | read? Women over 40 are the biggest buyers of fiction, but can't find enough stories |
| 0:43.6 | in which their age group is portrayed accurately. What do they want? |
| 0:49.9 | Only four months ago, a young journalist and writer, Lyra McKee, was shot dead in London |
| 0:56.0 | dairy. She had been observing writing in the Craig and area of the city. She'd just |
| 1:01.5 | completed a book called Angels with Blue Faces, in which she'd investigated the murders |
| 1:07.0 | in 1981 of an MP, Robert Bradford, and a young man called Ken Campbell. She also looked |
| 1:13.8 | into rumours of the abuse of boys at her home called King Cora. She didn't see her work |
| 1:20.0 | published, but today it will be launched officially in Belfast at the Linnon Hall Library |
| 1:25.7 | where she carried out most of her research. Her sister, Nicola Corner, joined us from |
| 1:30.9 | Belfast. What would have been Lyra's reaction to the book being published? |
| 1:36.8 | Well today she would have been extremely excited. She would have been running about checking |
| 1:42.3 | everything, double checking everything. She would have been worried about things that didn't |
| 1:46.8 | need to be worried about. She'd been trying to tell what sort of things would she have |
| 1:52.4 | been worried about, that she didn't need to be worried about. Well she'd have been worried |
| 1:56.1 | about what other people would have thought of her work. She would have been very concerned |
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