Nicole Hockley, Juliet Stevenson, Women protesting in Iran, Sue Townsend's legacy

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nicole Hockley lost her son Dylan when he was 6 years old, during the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut in 2012. She talks about her son, her feelings of loss, her activism and her reaction to the trial of Alex Jones, where a jury decided he should pay nearly 1 billion dollars in damages. Do you feel comfortable voicing your opinion? Are you afraid of the ‘cancel culture’? Actress Juliet Stevenson is in a new play that address the issue of differing opinions in the modern world – she explains why she thinks we’ve lost free speech in this country. Women in Iran are continuing to protest in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini. Iranian women have a strong history of protesting – author Kamin Mohammidi discusses. This week marks 40 years of Sue Townsend’s ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’. English Professor Emma Parker and writer Cathy Rentzenbrink join us to talk about the enduring legacy of Adrian Mole. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lottie Garton

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.2	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.4	Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.
0:13.3	Your chance to hear our carefully curated best bits from the week just gone.
0:18.2	Coming up, the actress Juliet Stevenson and what she sees as the loss of free speech in
0:23.6	this country.
0:24.6	Whatever happened to the phrase agreeing to disagree, you know, we're now living in a culture
0:29.1	where people are scared to say what they think, for fear of, you know, violent opposition
0:34.1	or being criticised or at worst, cancelled.
0:37.4	We seem to be losing freedom of speech, even freedom of thought.
0:40.9	And I think there is a sort of collective grief about that.
0:44.3	Why the current protests in Iran are different to those that have happened in the past and
0:48.3	what that could mean.
0:49.6	Plus, the legacy of the great author Sue Townsend and her book The Secret Diary of Adrian
0:55.0	Moll, which is 40 years old this week, that'll age you.
0:59.6	Put the kettle on and settle in.
1:02.4	But first, this week in a defamation trial in the United States, the conspiracy theorist
1:07.3	Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1 billion in damages.
1:12.4	He'd falsely claimed that a mass shooting in 2012 were 20 young children between the
1:17.5	ages of six and seven and six adults were shot dead at the Sandy Hook Elementary School
1:22.3	in Connecticut, was a hoax.
1:25.0	He argued for years that the parents of those who were killed were crisis actors and that
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