Paloma Faith, Nursing, Maya Forstater Verdict
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We talk to Paloma Faith about her music, her films, being a mother of two daughters, and harassment towards women and girls. She's got a new single out called Monster which is about her relationship with her career.
We hear from two nurses who tell us how the past year and a half has been for them. In the light of a report published earlier this week by the Health Select Committee we discuss burn-out and how health staff are so tired because of the pandemic that many are quitting and morale is at an all time low.
Dr Gwen Adshead is one of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrists and has spent 30 years providing therapy in secure hospitals and prisons. She worked extensively with violent women. Her book, The Devil You Know, co-authored with Eileen Horne, is a collection of 11 stories about men and women who've committed acts of terrible violence.
And we have bring you the breaking news that Maya Forstater has won her Appeal against an employment tribunal. Maya Forstater went to a tribunal in 2019 when her employment contract wasn't renewed after she posted tweets about gender recognition. She lost that case, but this morning - having taken it further - she's won the Appeal.
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| 0:41.0 | Hello I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Womensa from BBC. podcasts. and well coming on to 15 months really now and talk to one of Britain's leading |
| 1:04.0 | forensic psychiatrists about why some people who do terrible things can be helped. |
| 1:08.8 | But my question for you today concerns free speech. Remember the Scottish law student |
| 1:14.4 | Lisa Kio, she was on the program last month, she got into hot water for talking |
| 1:18.1 | about sex and gender in her class, for saying women have vaginas. She faced a university investigation and |
| 1:24.5 | here's what she had to say to me a few weeks ago. I think that my case is very |
| 1:28.4 | very relevant and it shows that you know free speech is getting |
| 1:31.8 | suppressed by the universities |
| 1:33.4 | not so much the universities per se but the people in it taking offense to what I've |
| 1:37.7 | said of course they've got the right to take offense but I think reporting |
| 1:41.8 | somebody for offending you by accident I don't think that's warranted. |
| 1:46.7 | Do you regret anything you said? No I stand by everything I said I didn't say anything that was |
| 1:51.9 | unlawful and everything I said is my view. |
| 1:55.0 | Where's the line of somebody thinking it's discriminatory though for you? |
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