Summer hair trends; Police & sexual misconduct - Woman's Hour/Newsnight reveal 1,400 accused
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Summer’s here and despite the restrictions still in place on social gathering we’re still managing to meet up with friends and enjoy the odd night out. One aspect of that is of course looking your best and a big part of that is your hair, which has had to take a backseat in terms of grooming and maintenance over the last eighteen months of lockdowns. But, we are returning to salons and apparently trying lots of new and old styles, as well as getting more creative with colour. Hair stylist Nicky Clarke gives Emma Barnett a summer make over and Camilla Kay from Glamour Magazine points out the trends including seventies flicks and “big hair” and the “Shullet” – the modern take on the mullet.
Most of us would think of the police as a safe place to turn to in a time of need. But it's a belief that has been seriously questioned by a couple of incidents over the past year. In a joint investigation with Newsnight we asked police forces in the UK, how many police had been accused of sexual misconduct. Of course most police officers do their jobs with integrity and honesty but campaigners say some of the results were worrying. Our reporter Melanie Abbott has been looking at this.
Shamima Begum, Kimberly Polman and Hoda Muthana are just a few of the names who made headline news around the world after leaving their homes in the West to join the so called Islamic State. With rare access to the detention camp in Northern Syria, Alba Sotorra Clua's new film 'The Return: Life After ISIS' features some of the women who devoted their lives to the group and who feel they should be given the chance to start over, back home in the West.
MP Jess Phillips is calling for there to be less shame around HPV – a sexually transmitted infection that she had in her twenties. Most sexually active people will contract HPV but won’t know they have it. For 90% of people it clears up but for others it can be serious. Jess Phillips found out she had HPV when she was 22 and pregnant and is talking about this to raise awareness for Cervical Cancer Screening Awareness week. Dr Sarah Jarvis also joins Emma.
Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Harriet Wistrich Interviewed Guest: Nicky Clarke Interviewed Guest: Camilla Kay Photographer: Daniel Thomas Smith from Glamour Interviewed Guest: Alba Sotorra Clua Interviewed Guest: Jess Phillips Interviewed Guest: Dr Sarah Jarvis
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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. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to the program. |
| 0:42.0 | Today we bring you a Woman's Our and BBC Newsnight joint investigation into the police |
| 0:46.6 | and sexual misconduct. |
| 0:48.2 | A freedom of information request by our programs has found there are nearly 1,500 allegations of sexual misconduct by police |
| 0:54.3 | officers with 204 cases seeing some form of disciplinary action. More detail on that |
| 1:00.5 | to come shortly, but our request has been placed at a time when discussions about how much women trust the police are high on the agenda. |
| 1:08.0 | Let us know your response to our investigation and of course your experiences if you feel you can and you don't have to give your real name. |
| 1:14.7 | You can text us here at Women's Hour on 84844 and waiting to hear from you or on social media |
| 1:19.8 | it's at BBC Woman's Hour or choose to email us through our website. |
| 1:23.6 | That definitely remains an option that many of you take us up on every single day and thank you |
| 1:27.8 | for that. |
| 1:28.8 | Also on today's program, Hair. |
| 1:31.1 | Lots of it. |
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