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Woman's Hour

Sharon Horgan, Weinstein verdict, Dads and Hair, and Noor Inayat-Khan

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Military Wives Choir captured the nation’s hearts when they got the number one spot in the Christmas chart in 2011. In her new film, Sharon Horgan plays one of the women who got the choir started. She joins us to discuss working on the feel-good project.

Yesterday, Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act and third degree rape - and could go to jail for over 20 years. He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault. While some are celebrating the verdict as the start of a new era and a sign of changing public attitudes towards sexual assault, Weinstein's lead attorney Donna Rotunno promised to appeal, saying "the fight is not over". So what does the ruling mean for women? Jane talks through the ramifications with Amanda Taub from the New York Times and feminist writer and commentator, Joan Smith.

There are a growing number of videos on social media of dads doing hair - not their own but their daughter’s. And there are groups of men across the country who are gaining hairdressing skills so they can confidently style their daughter’s hair. Jack Woodhams is one of those dads, and he loves spending quality time with his daughter doing her hair. Khembe Clarke teaches dads the techniques they need to style their daughter’s natural afro hair.

A young Muslim woman, Noor Inayat-Khan was many things: a dutiful daughter, a musician, an artist, a poet fluent in several languages and a published writer. Later, she was a vital part of the fight against Nazism, as a wireless telephonist in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She sacrificed her life for the cause of freedom and now a new interactive exhibition is keeping her story alive. Jane talks to Lynelle Howson, an historian at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Presenter - Jane Garvey Producer - Anna Lacey

Guest - Amanda Taub Guest - Joan Smith Guest - Sharon Horgan Guest - Lynelle Howson Guest - Khembe Clarke Guest - Jack Woodhams

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:36.4

Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Out Podcast from Tuesday,

0:39.8

the 25th of February 2020.

0:42.4

Sharon Hagen is one of our guests today, but we are starting, as you might expect, with Harvey Weinstein.

0:47.0

He's no longer an alleged rapist, he's a convicted one, found guilty of committing a criminal sexual act and third-degree rape.

0:55.8

He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault, but he could go to jail for almost

1:00.8

30 years.

1:02.3

His lead attorney, Donna Runo, promised an appeal saying the fight is not over and he'd taken the verdict like a man.

1:09.1

Well Amanda Taub is here, she's from the New York Times. Welcome to you, Amanda. Also with us, Joan Smith,

1:14.4

feminist writer and commentator. First of all, I think it's important to bring in the woman who really

1:19.7

is at the heart of this. She was at the very start of the Me Too movement.

1:23.8

She is the woman who kicked the whole thing off. It's Toronto Burke, the activist who

1:27.9

founded Me Too back in 2006. What does she think? I'm glad that he was convicted on some of the accounts.

1:36.0

The fact that he wasn't convicted on all five of them,

1:39.0

we can parse that out and go over why and what laws need to be changed from now into eternity but I'm just

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