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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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The Department for Education has just released the latest figures that show another rise in the number of Education, Health and Care Plans, or EHCPs, in England. These are the legal documents that outline what support a child or young person with special educational needs and disabilities is entitled to. The BBC’s education reporter Kate McGough, Jane Harris, vice chair of the Disabled Children's Partnership, and Jacquie Russell from West Sussex County Council join Clare McDonnell.
It's the UN's International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. At the moment, sexual violence is not treated as torture, which makes it harder to prosecute. Clare talks to the UN's special rapporteur on torture, Dr Alice Jill Edwards.
Kate Burton features in a new version of Somerset Maugham’s 1926 drawing-room comedy The Constant Wife in Stratford. Kate is known for many stage roles - at least 14 on Broadway - and screen hits including ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal - as well as for coming from a very famous family. She joins Clare to discuss the new production.
Clare also talks to LGBTQ+ trailblazer Yehudis Fletcher, whose memoir Chutzpah! opens with Yehudis, aged six, observing the sabbath with her orthodox Jewish family and all her unanswered questions about the world and her place in it. By age 16, she had been silenced, abused and lost within the care system. By 20, she had been married twice. By 25, she had three children. At 26, she found her voice and stands up in court against her abuser. And at 31, she fell in love for the first time.
Presenter: Clare McDonnell Producer: Corinna Jones
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0:00.0 | What is love? |
0:03.0 | Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen? |
0:07.0 | Sometimes you mistake other things for love. |
0:10.0 | Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means. |
0:16.3 | Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after. |
0:20.7 | You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about. |
0:25.2 | Ryland, how to be in love. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:31.1 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:35.0 | Hello, this is Claire Macdonnell and you're listening to The Woman's Hour podcast. |
0:39.6 | Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour. |
0:42.2 | Today, we'll hear from the woman who spend over 30 years listening to survivors of torture |
0:47.6 | and witnessing the damage it causes. |
0:50.4 | Dr Alice Jill Evans is the UN Special Rapporteur on this, and she'll tell us why she's campaigning to get sexual violence in armed conflict recognised as a form of torture. |
1:02.5 | It is a subversive feminist comedy written by a man, Somerset Mourne, back in 1926, all about female liberation in the face of infidelity. |
1:12.7 | The Constant Wife is on at the RSC in Stratford until the beginning of August. |
1:17.3 | Today we'll hear from one of its stars. Kate Burton joins us live. |
1:21.8 | Author and campaigner, Yehudis Fletcher, joins us as well to talk about her new memoir, |
1:26.9 | Hutzpah, the Glasgow-born daughter of a rabbi, |
1:30.1 | raised in an Orthodox Jewish community, |
1:32.9 | documents her tumultuous and of a traumatic childhood. |
1:36.7 | So why, in spite of that abuse and neglect, |
1:39.3 | as she decided to stay in that community? |
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