Stella Creasy MP, Living with one breast, City Girl in Nature
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
A man has been convicted in court of harassing the Labour MP Stella Creasy. This harassment included reporting her to social services as an 'unfit mother'. A safeguarding review quickly cleared Stella Creasy – but the complaint cannot be removed from her records. Today, she is tabling an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill, to allow councils to delete baseless complaints. Stella Creasy speaks to Krupa Padhy about her fight for justice under a law she herself drafted. She also pays tribute to fellow Labour politician Glenys Kinnock, who died on Sunday.
Last week on the programme we heard from Katy Marks, an architect by trade, who discovered after her single mastectomy that there was no bra on the market that was flat on one side. She didn’t want to use a prosthetic and so designed her own. Lots of you got in touch following that item to talk about your own experiences of living with one breast. Krupa is joined by two listeners, Diane Devlin and Laura Homer.
Born and raised in Deptford, south east London, Kwesia didn’t grow up with a lot of nature around her. That’s until she went on a life-changing trip to the Amazon. She’s since created her YouTube channel, City Girl in Nature, to guide other city dwellers into the great outdoors. She speaks to Krupa about her platform, nature activism work, and winning Best New Voice at the Audio Production Awards for her podcast Get Birding.
Some studies have found that women are more vulnerable to negative health impacts of single-use plastics, and women also form a larger majority of plastic consumers. With COP28 now underway in Dubai, Krupa is joined by Christina Dixon from Environmental Investigation Agency - an NGO which uncovers environmental crime and abuse. She would like to see plastic pollution being given a higher profile in climate talks.
What do our shoe choices say about us? A new exhibition at the Arc in Winchester in Hampshire called SHOES: INSIDE OUT looks at our relationship with our footwear. From the functional and practical to the fashionable and extravagant, what can shoes tell us about our social history, modern lives and our aspirations? Krupa is joined by Claire Isbester, co-curator of the exhibition.
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| 0:34.8 | Hello, this is Kruppaparty and you're listening to the Women's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | Joining us this morning is the Labour MP for Walthamstow, Celacrisi. |
| 0:43.9 | Writing in the Times this morning she shared that there can be few more surreal moments as an MP |
| 0:49.2 | than being a victim in court listening to a judge, convicts someone for a law they themselves helped |
| 0:54.8 | to write. |
| 0:55.8 | Last week a non-constituent who had never met Stella or her family, admitting |
| 1:00.9 | harassing them and received a suspended sentence. |
| 1:04.6 | And the judge described the case as one of the worst he had seen. |
| 1:08.6 | We'll talk to Stelichreecy at about half past 10 about what that outcome means to her and her loved ones, but also |
| 1:15.1 | what more needs to be done to support people who are victims of trolling even |
| 1:19.7 | when the case is closed in court. So do stay with us for that also you may not think of |
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