Sarah Ransome, Scars, Sequins

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today Andrea Catherwood talks to Sarah Ransome. She wanted to be at Ghislaine Maxwell trial when it started: not to testify but to see justice take its course. Like the four women who gave evidence, she says she's also a victim of Epstein's and Maxwell's. She says Ghislaine Maxwell, "starved and berated and swindled me while demanding I be raped daily".

This week we've been talking to women about their scars. Today we hear from Emily on the self-harm scars she no longer needs to hide.

We speak to Fiona Chesterton who discovered family secrets to do with illegitimacy. It started with a letter on her doorstep which revealed she was due a surprise inheritance. The tale is told in her new book Secrets Never To Be Told.

And it's the time of year that we should be putting on our sequins but covid may well put a stop to that. Never mind: we're still discovering when and how they became such a big part of celebrating. Now though there's an environment aspect to consider and some brands are rejecting them because they're made of plastic. Dress historian, author and broadcaster Amber Butchart joins Andrea Catherwood to discuss all things sequin.

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0:41.0	Hello I'm Andrea Catharwood and welcome to Womensower from podcasts. New York Court, I'll be speaking to British woman, Sarah Ransom, who was abused by both
0:54.8	Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell. Her story is harrowing. It's the first time she's spoken to
1:00.0	British media since the verdict, but I hope that it will help put the focus on the
1:04.3	victims and survivors and what they continue to go through. Now it is New Year's Eve
1:09.3	so if you are planning on putting on something sparkly tonight even if like many of us your
1:14.4	plans involve staying home this year sequins have been transforming outfits for
1:19.1	generations and clothes historian their Amber Butchart will be here to talk about the power of garments that glitter.
1:26.3	And today we'd like to hear from you on the subject of living with family secrets.
1:31.8	Most families, if you dig around enough, are hiding something. Often in the past it was
1:37.4	illegitimacy which used to be steeped in shame and often led to untold sadness, mainly for women in the family who had to give
1:46.0	up children or perhaps pretend a daughter was a younger sister or a cousin, basically living a lie, and it was all too common just a few generations. a I'll be meeting Fiona Chesterton who's written a book about her own voyage of family discovery
2:05.4	and the generations of secrets she uncovered. And I'd really like to hear from you about your own stories.
2:12.0	I can tell you that if we got started on some of the more colourful
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