Maggie Oliver, Alison Rayner Quintet, the history of the breast, and shortbread
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A report on child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester says police and social workers were aware and failed to protect victims fifteen years ago. We hear from Maggie Oliver, the former detective who blew the whistle on the failure to tackle grooming gangs in Rochdale, why she thinks little has changed in that time and why prosecutions must follow.
When she turned 60, bass player Alison Rayner formed a jazz band. She also set up Blow the Fuse, an organisation to support women musicians. Alison talks about her choice of instrument, why it’s never too late to take up music and the reaction she gets from her audience.
Professor Joanna Bourke looks at the history of ideas about the breast from beauty to age and function to sexual pleasure. She also discusses what happens when we turn our attention to the male breast.
And, in Flora Shedden’s new book Aran, each chapter follows a day in the life of the bakery of the same name which is located below the highlands of Scotland. She joins Jenni in the studio with Granny Joan’s and Angus’ shortbread.
Presenter: Jenni Murry Producer: Ruth Watts
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Thursday the 16th of January. |
| 0:13.7 | Flora Shedden was the youngest ever finalist in the Great British Bake Off. She now owns |
| 0:18.7 | her own bakery in Scotland and has published a book Aron. Today, she has cooked the perfect |
| 0:24.8 | shortbread. Men have breasts as do women. Why are they perceived in totally different |
| 0:31.1 | terms? Professor Jarnaburke explained the history of the breast and live music from the |
| 0:38.1 | Alison Rainer Quintet, a jazz band she formed when she was turning 60. |
| 0:44.6 | Earlier this week, the first part of an independent review into failures in the investigation |
| 0:50.3 | of the sexual grooming of children was published. It made shocking reading. It was commissioned |
| 0:56.4 | by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham and found the police and social workers |
| 1:00.8 | were aware that children were suffering the most profound abuse but did not protect them. |
| 1:07.9 | Maggie Oliver is the former detective in the Greater Manchester Police who resigned from |
| 1:12.1 | her job in 2012 and became the whistleblower who first exposed the forces poor handling |
| 1:18.1 | at the sexual abuse of girls in Rochtdale. We spoke earlier. What was her response when |
| 1:23.5 | she read the new report? Relief, really. It was a personally |
| 1:29.2 | a momentous day for me because I've spent 15 years trying to be heard with the truth. |
| 1:37.6 | And although the truth about operation span in Rochtdale has now been heard, Augusta was |
| 1:42.8 | actually South Manchester investigation, not Rochtdale. Long time ago, but finally I |
| 1:49.1 | feel vindicated. The operation Augusta was shut down in 2005. Why had it been set up |
| 1:55.9 | originally? A young girl called Victoria, the golia, had died, actually in Rochtdale. |
| 2:02.7 | She'd been administered an overdose of heroin by a 50-year-old Pakistani man. She was |
| 2:07.9 | in care and she'd been horrifically sexually abused and raped. At the same time, Channel |
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