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Woman's Hour

Nicola Rollock, Sexsomnia, Liz Truss, Anonymity prior to charge, Nadine Shah

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Nicola Rollock, Professor of Social Policy and Race at King's College London and an expert on racial justice, has a book out, The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival. in which she explores the hidden rules of race and racism, how they maintain the status quo, the pain and cost of navigating everyday racism and how to truly achieve racial justice. The Crown Prosecution Service has apologised unreservedly to a woman whose rape case was dropped after defence lawyers claimed she had an episode of a rare sleep walking condition called ‘sexsomnia’. In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the UK - the CPS now says it was wrong to drop the case and it should have gone to court. The BBC followed Jade McCrossen-Nethercott’s case as events unfolded over three years. Emma speaks to Jade and Emma Ailes, the producer and director of the BBC 3 documentary : SEXSOMNIA: CASE CLOSED? about why she began following Jade's case. The Home Secretary Suella Braverman has signalled that she may consider giving anonymity to criminal suspects as she feels a “media circus” jeopardises a fair trial. Speaking to an audience of Young Conservatives at the Conservative Conference in Birmingham, her comments came in answer to a question referring to the high profile cases of singer Sir Cliff Richard and Harvey Proctor, a former Conservative Member of Parliament, who were falsely accused of sexual abuse and never charged. Currently, alleged victims of sexual offences receive lifelong anonymity under UK law but there is no law against naming a suspect. So what effect would it have, particularly on women, if anonymity were given? Joining Emma is Lady Nourse who was cleared of 17 counts of historical child sex abuse involving a boy under the age of 12 in 2021, and Mark Williams-Thomas, an investigative journalist and former detective who exposed Jimmy Savile as a paedophile. When was the last time you tried something completely new? After over a decade in the music industry, 4 successful albums, and a Mercury Prize nomination under her belt, Nadine Shah has turned her hand to acting for the first time. The singer, songwriter, and musician talks to Emma Barnett about fear of failure, updating Shakespeare, and learning to act for her debut role as Titania in Matthew Dunster and Jimmy Fairhurst’s production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. It’s exactly a month since Liz Truss became leader of the conservative party and today she makes her first speech in that new role to the party faithful at their conference in Birmingham later this morning. Instead of the usual honeymoon period a new leader can expect to enjoy she has been beset by adverse publicity after the unveiling of chancellor’s mini budget almost two weeks ago. It led to huge market unrest with the pound plunging to record lows against the dollar. Emma speaks to Kirsty Buchanan, her former Special Advisor.

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.8

Good morning and welcome to the programme.

0:13.4

As the country's most powerful woman, the new Prime Minister Liz Truss, only in post for

0:17.7

a month, prepares and about an hour's time to take to the stage at the Conservative Party

0:22.0

Conference to give what some are calling the speech of her career to try and calm the

0:26.6

party faithful after one of the most chaotic and turbulent starts to a premiership and

0:31.6

to appeal to you, the British public.

0:33.9

I have a question for you.

0:35.8

If you were one of her speech writers, what story would you be thinking of that may end

0:41.1

dear her to you and if you were to relate to your own life, if you were having to think

0:45.7

about what could be a story from your childhood, from something about when you were growing

0:49.9

up that could end dear you to an entire nation?

0:53.1

What would you pick?

0:54.2

To Keir Starmer in his equivalent speech at the Labour Party Conference last week, talked

0:57.8

of growing up in a Pebble-Dash semi, his father being a toolmaker, his mother a nurse,

1:02.5

and the first family car being a Ford Cortina in the 1970s, where he talked about money

1:07.2

may have been thin on the ground, but hope wasn't for the working classes.

1:11.9

If you were trying to come up with an endearing story about your life, what would it be and

1:17.2

why and why would you choose to tell that to the whole country when you're trying to

1:21.6

establish yourself as the Prime Minister?

1:23.9

I'd love to hear these stories from you this morning.

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