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Woman's Hour

Vula Malinga, Paedophile Hunters, Survivors of the Turkish Invasion of Cyprus

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Vula Malinga started out as one of the lead singers for the London Community Gospel Choir, before becoming a lead vocalist with Basement Jaxx and she has also collaborated with the likes of Adele, Dizzee Rascal and Beverley Knight. Tomorrow night Vula will don her flares and sequins as one of the soloists at the BBC Prom – Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco, at the Royal Albert Hall. Along with the BBC Concert Orchestra will perform iconic disco classics from the late 1970s Studio 54 era. She joins Anita to reveal more and to perform live in the studio.

Tomorrow marks 50 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and an element of this story which often goes untold is the treatment of women during this time. Particularly, the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. For many, what happened to them is still a taboo subject. During her time as an MP, Skevi Koukouma raised this issue in parliament in 2015. Skevi is now the General Secretary of The Progressive Women’s Movement of POGO, an NGO which focuses on gender equality and social justice. She joins Woman’s Hour, along with Natassa Frederickou, the Vice President of the ZOE Vs War Violence Foundation, which aims to raise awareness of gender based violence in times of war.

And debut author Nilesha Chauvet’s novel The Revenge of Rita Marsh tells the story of a young woman who runs a care home for the elderly by day and a paedophile hunting group by night. Nilesha joins Anita along with Dr Kat Hadjimatheou, senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Essex University, to discuss the real paedophile hunters, why and how they do it and whether they help or hinder the criminal justice system.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Laura Northedge

Transcript

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0:00.0

He is Brian Cox.

0:02.8

Hello.

0:03.3

And he understands science.

0:05.4

I'm Robin Ince and I don't understand it quite so much.

0:09.0

Could he tell us something about the nature of matter?

0:11.3

Nope.

0:12.0

Okay, good.

0:13.2

Together we'll be joined by a collection of experts and non-expert guests.

0:18.6

What's going on?

0:19.8

Don't you know.

0:21.6

Taking a look at some of the most wonderful things

0:24.4

in the scientific world.

0:25.9

Science with Funny Bits, The Infinite Monkey Cage

0:29.3

on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. B. C Sounds. Music Radio Podcasts.

0:37.0

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womanzoa from BBC Radio 4.

0:42.0

Just to say that for rights reasons the music in the

0:45.0

original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast. Good morning.

0:49.6

Sequin boob tubes and Lame leggings at the ready. The proms are going

0:54.5

disco and so are we. Singer Vula Malinga will be here and there will be music

0:59.8

and quite possibly some dancing. It is a sunny Friday after all.

1:03.4

Also, the summer holidays are almost upon us.

1:05.9

So I'd like to know where you sit

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