My Best Day - Diane Barker, Victims' commissioner Claire Waxman, Playwright Tanika Gupta
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We asked you to get in touch and send us a picture that somehow captured you at your best. Today Diane Barker tells us about a very special picture that captures an adventure in Eastern Tibet.
We hear the concerns of midwifes about the role they are having to play in delivering the government policy of charging migrant women for maternity care.
The London Victims Commissioner and stalking victim, Claire Waxman on why she's written to the Ministry of Justice to ask them to change way compensation is paid. And the playwright Tanika Gupta talks about her latest project an adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play, A Doll’s House.
Presenter; Jenni Murray Producer; Beverley Purcell Guest; Claire Waxman Guest; Tanika Gupta Guest; Rosalind Bragg Guest; Clare Livingstone Guest; Corinne Clarkson
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Friday the 13th of September. |
| 0:11.7 | In 2017 the NHS was required to charge the cost of treatment to people who are not UK |
| 0:18.5 | residents. The Royal College of Midwives says it shouldn't apply to maternity care. Why? |
| 0:25.6 | In the series where we asked you for a picture of your best day, Diane Barker, on her trip |
| 0:30.6 | to Tibet. And a new version of Ibsen's Adoles House. Why has Tanika Gupta set the story |
| 0:37.6 | of a wife who, in 1879, leaves her husband and children not in Norway, but in Calcutta? |
| 0:45.7 | Earlier this month Claire Waxman, the London Victims Commissioner, wrote a letter to the Ministry |
| 0:51.2 | of Justice complaining about the length of time it takes for a victim to receive compensation |
| 0:57.5 | ordered to pay in a court of law. She quoted her own case of being awarded £5,000 in 2005 |
| 1:05.3 | and she has only received sporadic amounts of £15 to £100. She is asking for a new system |
| 1:13.4 | which will ensure the money is paid straight away. What scheme is she proposing? |
| 1:19.4 | Well, I want the Ministry of Justice to look at the scheme that is actually happening |
| 1:23.5 | in the Netherlands, which they introduced in 2011, where they pay the victims up front |
| 1:28.8 | and then they go and retrieve the funds from the offender. And that means that that victim |
| 1:33.8 | is then freed, they're allowed to get on with their life and recover as opposed to what |
| 1:37.9 | we here have here in England where victims are tied in receiving amounts sporadically |
| 1:43.8 | over many years connecting them to their offender, which really prevents them from recovering |
| 1:47.8 | fully. No, you, as I said, have a personal experience |
| 1:51.2 | of this. What happened in your experience of stalking? |
| 1:55.1 | So I mean, the stalking went on for well over a decade. I was in and out of court for |
| 2:00.0 | that amount of time as well. And the first two times we went to court, he was, as part |
| 2:06.1 | of his sentence, ordered to pay court, court awarded compensation. The first time it was |
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