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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Anya Taylor-Joy, Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse, Lone Female Ukrainian Refugees

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police has met and personally apologised to three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale for failures in the investigation of the sexual exploitation of children. The apology comes exactly a decade after the 2012 trial that resulted in some members of the gangs being convicted for their crimes. We hear from Maggie Oliver, the former detective who blew the whistle on the police’s failure to tackle these crimes. Anya Taylor-Joy's decision to leave school at 16 to pursue a career in acting has certainly paid off. In 2020, in the first month of its release – a staggering sixty-two million households watched her play chess prodigy Beth Harmon in the Netflix mini-series 'The Queen’s Gambit'. She discusses her latest film – The Northman - a brutal and bloody viking revenge epic. In August 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British academic travelled to Iran to attend a seminar and conduct academic research. At Tehran airport on her way back home to Australia, she was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Accused of espionage, she was imprisoned and later convicted and given a ten year sentence. She was released in November 2020 as part of a prisoner exchange deal negotiated by the Australian government. She’s written about those 804 days, in a new book The Uncaged Sky. The UK government has been told to stop matching lone female Ukrainian refugees with single men. The UN has intervened following concerns that women and sometimes children are at risk of sexual exploitation. Under the government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme, British hosts must link up with refugees themselves, leaving tens of thousands of people to resort to unregulated social media groups to connect. We hear from Louise Calvey, Head of Services and Safeguarding at Refugee Action and Times reporter, Shayma Bakht. With over 100 million record sales, an Academy Award, a Grammy, and an award from The Council of Fashion Designers of America, very few artists have a catalogue that matches the iconic Cher. A new musical, touring the UK - “The Cher Show” - tells the story of the Goddess of Pop’s meteoric rise to fame. The director and choreographer behind the show are two Strictly Come Dancing legends - Arlene Phillips and Oti Mabuse.

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

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Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly, welcome to Woman's Out from BBC Radio 4.

0:09.8

Coming up, we find out what risks some women fleeing Ukraine alone might be facing when

0:14.6

trying to find a new home in the UK.

0:17.6

Strictly legends, Arlene Phillips and Ote Mabuse tell us about a new musical touring

0:22.0

country and we meet Kylie Moore Gilbert, an Australian British academic who spent 804

0:28.3

days in a Iranian prison.

0:31.0

But first, a major apology 10 years late.

0:34.6

On Tuesday afternoon, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police Stephen Watson

0:38.9

met and personally apologised to three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale for failures

0:44.7

in the investigation of the sexual exploitation of children.

0:48.5

The apologies, which have now been published online, come a decade after the trial that

0:52.8

resulted in some, but by no means all, members of these gangs being convicted for crimes

0:58.2

that took place between 2008 and 2012 against children as young as 13.

1:04.2

These three women, now in their 20s, have also received what's been described as substantial

1:08.9

damages.

1:09.9

Well, the case was brought against the police by the Centre for Women's Justice, former

1:14.5

detective constable Maggie Oliver, an officer who worked on the investigation, resigned

1:19.2

from Greater Manchester Police in 2012 to publicly speak out against what she recognised

1:24.8

as gross failures to safeguard these victims.

1:28.3

Well Emma spoke to Maggie earlier this week and started by asking, is this apology too

1:33.0

little too late?

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