Sally Challen, with her son David: her first radio interview
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After years of being controlled and humiliated by him in 2011 Sally Challen was jailed for 22 years for the murder of her husband, Richard. The sentence was reduced to 18 years but in June of this year she walked out of the Old Bailey a free woman. The introduction of coercive control as a crime meant her sentence was reduced to manslaughter. In her first radio interview Sally joins Jane Garvey to reflect on her marriage, her sentence and how it feels to be a ‘free woman’ and a new grandma.
As part of Radio 4, Four Seasons Poetry Day the award-winning poet Fiona Benson reads from her collection to mark the autumn equinox .
BBC Music Day is on Thursday – an annual celebration across the BBC of the power of music to change lives. On Woman’s Hour we’ll be hearing from women about the importance of music in their dementia care. Today - Teresa Davies. She’s from Mold in North Wales and is creating a digital book about her life so future carers can find out what particular pieces of music mean to her.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Sally Challen Interviewed Guest: Fiona Benson Reporter: Henrietta Harrison
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 0:33.0 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.1 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, |
| 0:38.6 | here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.8 | My name's Linda Davies, and I commissioned podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.4 | As you'd expect at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things, |
| 0:59.2 | like pop stars, poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories. |
| 1:04.4 | And that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.3 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, |
| 1:09.4 | find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 1:17.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Ad Podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | It's Monday the 23rd of September 2019. Today Sally Chalon in her own words we |
| 1:27.1 | mark the autumn equinox in the company of the award-winning poet Fiona Benson and |
| 1:32.0 | we've got just a fantastic feature with a lady |
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