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Woman's Hour

Safe city design, Victoria Atkins, Do men and women garden differently?

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After Sarah Everard’s murder, there are calls to make the streets safer for women. So, how can that be done? And how can town planning reduce the risk for women when they’re walking alone? Dr Ellie Cosgrave, a lecturer in Urban Innovation and Policy at UCL, describes her vision of safe cities designed with women in mind. Yesterday Boris Johnson's Criminal Justice Taskforce came up with a series of new measures to help protect women and girls, including better street lighting, CCTV and a new idea of sending undercover police officers into pubs and clubs. These are welcome measures to some, but for others this package misses the mark. There are also plans for a register to monitor serial domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators, and a push to make misogyny a hate crime. Does this add up to real change ? Emma speaks to Home Office Minister Victoria Atkins, whose brief covers domestic abuse, violence against women and sexual violence. As the weather warms and if you’re lucky enough to have a garden, it’s time to start thinking about the first mow of the season. A perfectly manicured lawn can be something of a status symbol and - as Monty Don recently put it in a recent Radio Times interview - a peculiarly male obsession rooted in a desire to control the environment. Pippa Greenwood from Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time and the lawn consultant David Hedges-Gower discuss lawns and whether or not men and women have a different approach to gardening.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett, and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.0

Good morning. What would it take?

0:12.5

What would feeling safer on our streets mean for you? What would it look like?

0:16.5

What would actually shift the dial?

0:19.6

I asked because the Prime Minister hosted a meeting last night

0:22.4

with Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner,

0:24.8

the Home Secretary, Pretty Patel and others,

0:27.1

to try and figure out how to help women and girls feel safer on our streets.

0:32.3

More security cameras, better street lighting,

0:34.6

sending plain clothes, police officers into clubs and pubs when they reopen.

0:38.5

This is all in England, I should say, seems to be the upshot.

0:41.8

We can discuss in more detail those plans

0:44.4

with a Home Office Minister Victoria Atkins in just a moment.

0:48.3

But what would do it for you?

0:51.0

What do you make of these measures?

0:52.4

A lot of reaction, I can safely say,

0:54.3

already text us on 84844,

0:57.0

text will be charged at your standard message rate,

0:59.3

or on social media where many of you have already been kind enough to get in touch

1:02.6

and share your views, your experiences,

1:04.8

at BBC Woman's Hour or email us through our website.

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