US Election, Sex work, Johnny Depp
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
America goes to the polls today. It's predicted the women's vote will be key, particularly the suburban woman who came out for Trump in 2016 but 4 years on has changed her mind. We review the polls ahead of what is expected to be the biggest turn out in years.
Johnny Depp has lost his libel case against the Sun newspaper over an article that called him a "wife beater". We talk to a Women's Rights organisation and look at the career implications for the 57 year old film star and his 34 year old ex wife Amber Heard.
One group of self employed people we’ve not heard much about during the pandemic is sex workers. The coronavirus has spelt economic disaster for an industry which requires social contact and many are turning to online platforms like OnlyFans which allows them to sell photos and videos with a monthly subscription. Jane will be talking to Laura Watson from the Collective of English Prostitutes and the feminist writer Julie Bindel.
And in our new series on life and shoes, we speak to Carmen about her espadrilles her mother danced in decades ago and her own tango shoes
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Henrietta Harrison
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey and a warm welcome to the Woman's Hour |
| 0:44.5 | podcast. It is Tuesday the 3rd of November 2020. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello a very good morning to you today. Sex work has to some degree gone online during the pandemic but is it any safer for women? |
| 0:56.5 | Also today Johnny Depp has lost his libel case but what will the impact be on his career and on survivors of domestic abuse and why are some of his female |
| 1:08.4 | fans still defending Johnny Depp? That's on the program this morning. |
| 1:13.0 | We start though with the US election and we welcome back |
| 1:16.0 | Melissa Malefsky, a lecturer in American history at the University of Sussex |
| 1:20.0 | and joining us from Florida where it's five in the morning so we're grateful to her |
| 1:24.8 | Sharon Wright Austin professor of political science at the University of Florida |
| 1:29.6 | Sharon first of all good morning from us here in the UK. It was very very close |
| 1:34.6 | last time round in Florida President Trump took the state by about 113,000 |
| 1:40.0 | votes. How do you see it playing out this time round? |
| 1:44.0 | This time around, I guess the polls are showing that it's pretty much neck and neck, but |
| 1:49.1 | Biden has a slight lead so it could go either way. |
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