Shelly Chopra Dhar, Women's Rights in Poland, Lucy-Anne Holmes, OCD

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Human Rights Watch has concluded that the Polish government is putting women's rights and safety at risk. It says that since coming to power in 2015, the Law and Justice Party government has targeted women’s rights groups through raids and funding cuts, often with little warning and no clear rationale. Hillary Margolis explains their concerns. Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga ( How I felt when I saw a Girl) is the first mainstream, commercial film featuring a Lesbian love story. We hear from director and co-writer, Shelly Chopra Dhar. How do you turn a memoir about living with ‘pure O’, a type of OCD which causes intrusive and disturbing thoughts, into a TV show? Pure is a new Channel 4 drama based on Rose Cartwright’s autobiography of the same name about living with the condition. Kirstie Swain, the screen writer and Charly Clive who plays Marnie, the main character discuss how they turned the book into a comedy drama. In her book Don’t Hold My Head Down, Lucy-Anne Holmes, writer and founder of the 'No More Page 3' campaign, describes her “sexual odyssey”. Disappointed by sex and uncomfortable with the porn industry, she compiled a list of things that would improve her sex life. She explains how exploring her sexuality changed her life.

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0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.
0:29.0	BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.
0:34.6	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the podcast for Wednes Day, the 6th of February.
0:41.0	Now tonight the second episode of the travel for drama pure will be broadcast.
0:46.0	How did the writer and the lead actor turn a pretty shocking memoir about an extreme form of
0:52.4	obsessive compulsive disorder into a television series.
0:57.0	Shelly Chopredard is the director of an Indian film whose translated title is How I Felt when I saw a girl.
1:05.0	How ready is India for a Bollywood film about a lesbian love story?
1:10.0	And don't hold my head down what prompted Lucian Holmes to write a book about her own sex life.
1:18.0	A report published this morning by Human Rights Watch claims the Polish government is targeting
1:25.2	women's rights activists and organisations and is consequently putting women's rights and safety
1:31.2	at risk. The report documents how since coming to power in 2015
1:36.7	the law and justice government has targeted active groups and either close them down or
1:42.0	removed their funding. The report is called
1:45.9	The Breath of the Government on my back and Hillary Margolis is a researcher who's
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