Talking to your children about knife crime

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

There appears to be rise in knife violence among young people, and it’s happening right around the country. Parents are asking themselves how to keep their children safe, especially when some of the recent stabbings appear to be so random, have happened in open spaces and when other people have been around. So what should parents tell their children when they go out, and what do they need to be alert for?

‘Runaways’ is a new novel by Fatima Bhutto. Set between Pakistan and the UK, it tells the story of three young people drawn to radical forces. She joins Jenni to discuss the themes of poverty, alienation, class, technology and the West’s lack of understanding of radicalism.

And we return to the series ‘Bump, Birth and Beyond’. Last week we heard from the dads and one gran as they had frank chat about dad guilt, dad privilege, sex and feeling like a spare part. In the latest edition we catch up with the mothers – it’s been a whole year since we last spoke to Charlotte Dore, Jen Barratt, Rowan Lawton and Laura Horrocks. Abby Hollick, who also had a baby at the same time, sits down with them to find out how they’re doing, how they’ve coped with the unexpected and going back to work.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Laura Northedge Interviewed Guest: Fatima Bhutto Interviewed Guest: Yvonne Lawson Interviewed Guest: Rachel Webb Interviewed Guest: Elaine Donnellon

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
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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.
0:31.0	BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to Wednesdays' edition of the Women's Our Podcast.
0:41.0	Fatima Bhutto is a member of one of Pakistan's most famous families, her grandfather
0:46.5	and her aunt were both prime ministers who suffered violent deaths. Why then has she written a novel, The Runaways, about young people who become
0:56.7	radicalized in which she asks us to understand them? And the series bumped birth and beyond, we hear from the four mothers whose children are now a year old.
1:07.0	Now, as I'm sure you've heard in the news, two young men have been arrested for murder.
1:12.0	The first for allegedly killing
1:14.5	Youssef Ghaleb Markey in Greater Manchester and the other for stabbing Jody
1:19.1	Chesney in East London. There have been calls for the proliferation of knife crime to be
1:24.8	regarded as a national emergency and the Home Secretary is today meeting the
1:30.3	Chief Constable's of seven forces in areas considered most high risk.
1:36.0	And there are constant discussions about what's causing so many young people to carry knives
1:41.5	and be prepared to use them.
1:43.0	Sarah Thornton, the chair of the National Police Chiefs Council, gave one of her theories
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