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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Dr Koshka Duff, Tareena Shakil, 'Corona Lisa', Midwife Shortage, Six The Musical

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Dr Koshka Duff, an assistant professor of politics at Nottingham University has received an apology and compensation from the Met Police after officers were caught on CCTV using sexist, derogatory and unacceptable language during a 2013 strip search. In her first broadcast interview since the apology, she speaks to Emma about that experience and why it has taken so long to get an apology. Chloe Slevin, a 3rd year nursing student at University College Dublin has been painting well-known masterpieces - with a Covid-19 twist. Her latest creation? The 'Corona Lisa' which sees the famous Mona Lisa in full PPE, which she plans to auction off for charity. She joins Emma to talk about all about her paintings. Tareena Shakil is the first British woman to be found guilty of joining the so-called Islamic State. She was jailed for travelling to Syria with her son - who was a one year old baby at the time, in 2014. She speaks to Anita about why she left the UK to join a terrorist organisation - and why she's speaking out. Midwives are being ‘dangerously overworked’ according to a former NHS midwife. Piroska Cavell, who worked for years across the UK as a midwife and Dr Mary Ross-Davie from the Royal College of Midwives speak to Emma about the challenges facing midwives working on the frontline: Plus do you remember the rhyme for Henry VIII's six wives? Well a musical about them has just opened on Broadway following rave reviews on the West End. Six the Musical follows all six wives, as they take the microphone in a ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ style sing-off. Co-director Lucy Moss, co-director and co-writer of the show, and Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, who plays Henry VIII’s fifth wife Katherine Howard, join Emma to discuss its success.

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.2

Hello and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour, where I bring you up to speed with the best bits

0:15.0

of the week just gone and I have some fascinating interviews to bring you.

0:19.5

Coming up, we hear from the first British woman to be found guilty of joining the so-called

0:24.5

Islamic State, plus the Irish trainee nurse putting a COVID-19 spin on art masterpieces.

0:32.0

But first, Dr Koschka Duff, an assistant professor of politics at Nottingham University, has

0:37.5

won an apology and compensation from the Metropolitan Police for sexist, derogatory and unacceptable

0:44.3

language used by officers when she was stripped searched in 2013.

0:49.3

She was arrested in May of that year on suspicion of obstructing and assaulting police after

0:53.7

trying to hand a legal advice card to a 15-year-old court in a stop and search.

0:58.9

Allegations she was later cleared of in court.

1:02.2

She spoke to the programme in her first broadcast interview since receiving that apology

1:06.4

and footage became public.

1:08.4

Emma started by asking when she first heard and saw the tapes of what those police officers

1:14.2

had to say about her.

1:15.5

I didn't hear that footage until last year because for seven years of the complaints

1:23.0

process, the police had refused to disclose the CCTV that they had.

1:28.4

So it was only then that I heard those comments, but really those were absolutely in keeping

1:35.9

with what I experienced in the strip search itself is not on CCTV, but what they were

1:41.8

saying was no surprise at all.

1:45.0

Well, we will come to that and also how you found yourself in that position.

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