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Woman's Hour

Sara Canning, partner of Lyra McKee

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It’s been a month since Lyra McKee was killed in Londonderry. She was 29 and was already making waves in journalism as well as being an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community. The night she was shot she had been watching rioting in Creggan, a housing estate on the outskirts of the city. The New IRA said its members carried out the murder. At her funeral politicians were urged to find solutions to Northern Ireland’s problems and Lyra’s partner, Sara Canning, addressed them personally, seizing the opportunity to speak to them candidly. From the very start, she faced the TV cameras to pay her own tributes to her girlfriend. This weekend she’s been speaking at an equal marriage rally in Belfast. She talks to Jane Garvey. Ashton Applewhite is calling for a movement to end ageism in her book 'This Chair Rocks'. Maggy Pigott’s twitter account @AgeingBetter, about the unexpected joys of aging, picked up huge numbers of followers overnight; Her upcoming book is called How To Age Joyfully. So why is the conversation around aging so negative? And how much could our lives, health and economy improve if it changed? In 2018 over 100,000 online images of child sexual abuse were taken down by the Internet Watch Foundation. The UK-based organisation is seeing a sharp increase in self-generated content, particularly girls aged 11 to 13, who are filming themselves on webcams in their own bedrooms. Chief Executive Susie Hargreaves discusses what can be done. Shakespears Sister. The nineties pop duo have reunited as a band after not talking to each other for 26 years. Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit look back, explain how they got back together and to perform their new single, live in the studio. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Sara Canning Interviewed Guest: Ashton Applewhite Interviewed Guest: Maggy Pigott Interviewed Guest: Susie Hargreaves Interviewed Guest: Marcella Detroit Interviewed Guest: Siobhan Fahey

Transcript

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0:00.0

VVC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.3

Hi, this is Jane Garvey, and this is the Woman's Hour Podcast.

0:09.1

It's Monday the 20th of May 2019.

0:11.7

Today, we look at how to age, why women have such a problem with aging, alleged, what

0:17.8

we should do to stop people making assumptions about older women, and there are loads of

0:22.5

emails from you on this subject, and our two guests in the studio, Ashton and Maggie

0:26.8

are still with us, and you can hear more from them at the end of the podcast today.

0:31.7

Also today, we hear from Susie Hargreaves, who's in charge of the Internet Watch Foundation.

0:37.0

She had some pretty troubling things to say about removing images of child sexual abuse

0:42.7

from the Internet, and there's an interview with Shakespeare's sister who are back together.

0:47.7

They fell out fairly spectacularly amidst their enormous success back in the 1990s.

0:53.0

They are together again now, they've written new material, and there's an album and

0:56.8

a tour, so Shakespeare's sister, Marcy Detroit and Shavorn Fahey, on Women's Hour today.

1:03.4

First though, on Saturday, just a month after her partner, Lyra McKee, was killed in London

1:08.4

dairy.

1:09.4

Sarah Canning addressed a crowd of thousands of people in Belfast, and her message was

1:13.5

a really simple one.

1:15.2

Same-sex marriage is legal in the Irish Republic and in the rest of the UK, so why not in Northern

1:21.4

Ireland?

1:22.4

Sarah spoke to us from our studio in dairy, and I asked her how she was able to do the

1:27.6

incredible work she's doing right now.

1:29.7

I'm not entirely sure.

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