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Woman's Hour

Rape gangs, Playing Nice, Cancer friends, Erotica

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Victims groomed and raped by gangs have told the BBC's Senior UK Correspondent Sima Kotecha that they are adamant the crime is still happening to girls across the country. Yesterday, a Tory amendment to the government's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which wanted a national inquiry into grooming gangs, was voted down. Krupa Padhy talks to Sima and Simon Morton, a former senior investigating officer for Thames Valley Police, about what is known about how these gangs operate.

Playing Nice, a new ITV drama, tells the story of two couples who discover their toddlers were accidentally swapped at birth. Actor Niamh Algar, who plays one of the mothers, and Grace Ofori-Attah, who wrote the script for the small screen, join Krupa to talk about the moral and ethical issues within the series, and why they hope it will spark a conversation.

Two women who've developed a firm friendship through a shared experience of having a rare eye cancer join Krupa to talk about the incredible bond they have forged. Ocular melanoma affects only five in a million people but Tessa Wingfield-Parry and Joanna Denman, who happen to live just around the corner from each other, both were diagnosed. They talk about how they met, the impact the disease has had on their lives, and how they've discovered they've got a lot more in common than just their cancer.

Whilst doing her Masters at the University of Cambridge, Times writer Tyler Bennett earnt extra money on the side writing erotica. Having cracked the code to a good steamy story, she joins Krupa along with the Man Booker shortlisted author Sarah Hall to discuss the genre, breaking taboos and erotica's ability to empower.

Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Rebecca Myatt

Transcript

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0:00.0

In 2024, we were here for the gritty ones.

0:04.8

The adrenaline was building up in me.

0:06.7

With gripping true prime podcasts, people can shock you all the time.

0:11.3

Dead man running.

0:12.5

The word was out.

0:13.9

A wanted man may have staged his disappearance.

0:17.0

Intrigue to catch a scorpion.

0:19.0

Scorpion actually really does look scary.

0:21.2

I mean, how do you get through that fear?

0:23.0

And how are we going to get near him?

0:24.5

And gangster.

0:25.6

It was an organised hit in the middle of his heartland territory.

0:29.8

The Best of 2024 is here.

0:32.2

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:35.8

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:39.7

Hello, this is Krupa Party, and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:44.0

Hello, thank you for being with us.

0:45.8

Coming up this morning, the BBC Seema Kocche has been talking to young victims of grooming

0:50.8

and rape, and they've told her it's continuing to happen across the country.

0:56.2

We're going to take a closer look at these gangs and better understand the data around them and

1:01.0

just how rife they are. And of course, those various calls for action against them. Also,

1:06.9

sometimes the people who matter the most enter our lives in the most unexpected ways.

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