New chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Tracy Chevalier, France rape trial

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The newly elected Chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Labour MP Sarah Owen, joins Anita Rani on the programme to discuss the remit of her new role and what she hopes to achieve.

Tracy Chevalier’s new novel The Glassmaker follows a Murano glassmaking family through hundreds of years of Venetian history. Time plays strange tricks as it follows Orsola Rosso, who is nine in 1486, all the way to the present day, when she is in her late sixties. Tracy joins Anita to discuss her love story that encompasses centuries of passion and longing.

72-year-old Gisele Pelicot has been testifying in court against her husband, Dominique. He is accused of drugging her repeatedly over the course of a decade and inviting men to the house to rape her while she was unconscious. This was only discovered because he was caught by the police for upskirting in 2020. To get the latest updates on the case, Anita speaks to BBC Correspondent Andrew Harding. She is also joined by campaigner Gina Martin, who helped to make upskirting illegal in the UK.

A new play, The Lightest Element, which has opened at Hampstead Theatre, explores the life and career of astronomer Cecila Payne-Gaposchkin, the first person to work out what stars are made of. Anita is joined by actor Maureen Beatie, who plays Cecilia, and the playwright Stella Feehilly.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce

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0:44.0	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:49.0	Good morning.
0:50.0	Welcome to Woman's Hour. On the program today, I'll be joined by Sarah Owen MP who last night was elected as the new chair of the Women's and Equality Select Committee.
0:59.3	Essentially her job will be to hold the government to account and draw their attention to the rights of women and minorities.
1:06.0	So we think it's really important we hear from you this morning.
1:10.0	What are the issues and concerns you have that you would like the focus to be on and why?
1:16.0	Based on your own experience of giving birth, maybe you think the government need to be pushing
1:19.6	for change in maternity within the NHS.
1:22.4	Is it women's safety? Because you're afraid in maternity
1:23.7	because you're afraid to walk down the street at night.
1:26.4	Have you faced sexism at work, online abuse, domestic violence, housing,
1:30.5	education?
1:31.5	When it comes to your day-to-day life,
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