Posy Simmonds, Chelsea Flower Show, Emmerdale, India election
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
People in the UK have a worrying lack of knowledge about what constitutes a crime when it comes to the sexual abuse of children, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by Barnardo’s. The children’s charity has been working with ITV’s Emmerdale on a story-line about a teacher who grooms and has sex with a pupil. Jenni is joined by Amanda Naylor, Head of Child Sexual Abuse at Barnado’s and Cris McCurley, a partner at BenHoareBell Solicitors in Newcastle to discuss adults in positions of trust and how the Sexual Offences Act 2003 relates to them.
The Chelsea Flower Show has started. Women and children are at the heart of one of the gardens that has achieved gold. It’s a recreation of a village in Zimbabwe with crops rich in vitamins, minerals and nutrients especially good for women, teenage girls and children under five. Siobhann Tighe has been to see it.
Today India learns the outcome of its general election. For the first time ever more women are likely to have voted than men. Political parties sought to appeal to women, offering educational loans, free cooking gas cylinders and bikes for girls. Eight percent of parliamentary candidates were women. In one party, the Trinamool Congress Party (TMC), 41 per cent of its candidates were women. Jenni is joined by the BBC's India correspondent Yogita Limaye in Varanasi and Dr Champa Patel, Head of the Chatham House Asia-Pacific programme.
To mark the opening of a new retrospective of the work of Posy Simmonds at the House of Illustration in London, Jenni talks to its co-curator Paul Gravett, to comic laureate Hannah Berry and to cartoonist and winner of last year’s Observer Cape graphic short story prize, Edith Pritchett. How did Posy become a trailblazing female cartoonist in a male-dominated field? And what impact has her work had on the next generation of women cartoonists and graphic novelists?
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| 0:41.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour Podcast for Thursday the 23rd of May. |
| 0:47.5 | As we await the results of the world's largest ever democratic election, 900 million people registered to vote, how many of the |
| 0:56.0 | voters in India were women and what will have drawn them to the polls. |
| 1:01.1 | The influence of Posey Simmons on the cartoonists and graphic novelists who came after her. |
| 1:06.7 | A retrospective of her work opens at the House of Illustration in London. |
| 1:11.6 | And Gold at the Chelsea Flower Show. The CAM-fed garden is inspired by the |
| 1:17.0 | farming women of Zimbabwe, growing plants for the health and well-being of women and children. |
| 1:23.0 | Now if you've been watching Emmadil recently you'll have been following the story of |
| 1:27.8 | Mayor, a teacher in a secondary school and one of her pupils Jacob. They'd been sexting each other and kissing before Jacob turned |
| 1:37.2 | 16 then. After his 16th birthday, they had sexual intercourse. Here Jacob discovers that she's been |
| 1:45.3 | reported to the police. Why would you do this to me? |
| 1:49.2 | Seriously, did you really think we were going to let you go with her? |
| 1:52.8 | I want to be with her. |
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