Olympic medallist Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Beryl Cook play
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Fresh from the Paris Olympic Games, the Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell joins Jessica Creighton on the programme. Best known for her no-nonsense attitude, fabulous hair and of course, lifting extremely heavy weights, she joins Jessica to discuss adding bronze to her silver medal from Tokyo.
A Glasgow parents group is taking legal action against the city council over planned education cuts. It is calling on the council to halt implementation of reductions to teacher numbers and a mentoring scheme. The Glasgow City Parents Group says the council failed to carry out an equality impact assessment. The group's chair Leanne McGuire joins Jessica to discuss.
In 2020, Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott had the case against her alleged rapist dropped by the CPS. They said that the defence had suggested she suffered from ‘sexsomnia’, where a person performs sexual acts in their sleep. Jade Blue put in a Victim’s Right to Review and received an apology from the CPS for dropping the case, which cannot be re-opened. Jade Blue then sued the CPS – and has now received £35,000 in compensation for damages. Jade joins Jessica to tell her how it feels to have that compensation.
Fame found artist Beryl Cook in the 1970s through her colourful, humorous depictions of everyday people. Actress and artist Kara Wilson has always been a fan and wanted to uncover the person behind the art with her play about Beryl, now playing at the Edinburgh Fringe. At the same time, she’s living with her daughter comedian Nina Conti, who also has a show and film on at the Fringe. They both join Jessica to discuss their individual projects and what it’s like living together again.
Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Lottie Garton
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read |
| 0:08.2 | everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge. |
| 0:14.7 | It's part of what it means to be human. |
| 0:17.5 | Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance. |
| 0:22.1 | There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative. |
| 0:25.0 | The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan |
| 0:29.0 | with me Rory Stewart, |
| 0:31.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm Jessica Krieton. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:43.0 | Really good to be back with you here on Women's Hour. |
| 0:46.0 | Now, it might be four days since the Paris Olympics ended, |
| 0:49.0 | but we're still very much feeling Games fever here |
| 0:52.0 | and we'll be celebrating with one of the most |
| 0:54.4 | popular members of team GB after her medal in Paris. I'll give you a clue |
| 1:00.6 | she has one of the biggest smiles in sport and picks up some seriously heavy |
| 1:06.5 | weights well that was two clues wasn't it you might have seen her competing and if so you would |
| 1:12.2 | have seen her celebration when her bronze medal was completed. her |
| 1:13.0 | competing and if so you would have seen her celebration when her bronze medal was confirmed. |
| 1:16.0 | It was a cartwell. It was a great moment. |
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