The Corona Lisa, Dr Koshka Duff, Magistrates and Revolutionary women

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Chloe Slevin, a 3rd year nursing student at University College Dublin has been painting well-known masterpieces - with a Covid-19 twist. First came 'The Girl with the Surgical Mask' after the famous 'Girl with the Pearl Earring' then she did a version of one of Michaelangelo's famous works. But her most recent painting is that of the 'Corona Lisa' - the Mona Lisa in full PPE and surgical mask, which she's auctioning off for LauraLynn, Ireland's only children's hospice. She joins Emma to talk about her paintings and what it's been like as a trainee nurse during the pandemic. Emma speaks to Dr Koshka Duff who was detained in 2013 after offering a legal advice card to a black teenager during his stop-and-search. On CCTV footage, officers can be heard laughing about her hair, clothes and talking about her underwear. The Metropolitan Police have now apologised and paid the academic compensation for their "sexist, derogatory and unacceptable language". The Ministry of Justice, this week, has announced an unprecedented recruitment drive, to boost the number of magistrates by 4,000. It’s part of a £1 million campaign to make the magistracy more representative of the communities it serves. They’re aiming to attract people from a wide range of backgrounds, from teachers, bricklayers, stay-at-home mums, and any individuals who can display reason and sound judgment. The step is expected to free up an estimated 1,700 extra days of Crown Court time annually and new recruits are expected to help tackle the backlog of criminal cases caused by the pandemic. Emma speaks to Amie Canham from North Yorkshire, a new Magistrate, as well as Bev Higgs, Chair of the Magistrates Association. Women were contributing to the development of British politics and democracy long before they were agitating for the vote. Very few of them are well known today but all of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit, that’s according to Nan Sloane who has written a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Her book is called Uncontrollable Women.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.3	Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.5	Good morning and welcome to today's programme.
0:13.2	Yesterday I started the programme
0:15.2	relaying to you the exact words of some police officers
0:18.4	in an orthes London police station in 2013.
0:21.8	They were talking about a woman they'd arrested and stripped searched and said,
0:25.4	what's that smell? Oh, it's her nickers, with another asking, is she rank?
0:31.0	It was a group of male and female officers and the woman they were talking about
0:35.1	is Dr Koschka Duff, now an assistant professor of politics at Nottingham University.
0:40.2	You contacted us in your droves with your reactions to those words.
0:44.8	We had so many messages, texts, emails on social media all coming in throughout the programme
0:50.5	and afterwards, even hearing from serving and former police officers reacting to such
0:55.6	shaming and gendered comments.
0:58.4	As I told you yesterday and was reported, Dr Koschka Duff has just one
1:02.8	in apology and compensation from the Metropolitan Police for using sexist,
1:07.4	derogatory and unacceptable language as they stripped searcher.
1:11.4	I also said that I would very much like to welcome her to Woman's Hour.
1:15.1	While I'm happy to report, she accepted our invitation
1:18.4	and I spoke to her this morning just before coming on air.
1:21.7	This is Dr Koschka Duff's first broadcast interview since that footage became public
1:26.4	and since she won that apology and compensation.
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