Weekend Woman's Hour: Olympian Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Science fiction, Paralympian Jodie Grinham
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Fresh from the Paris Olympic Games, the Team GB weightlifter Emily Campbell joins Jessica Creighton on the programme. Best known for her no-nonsense attitude, fabulous hair and of course, lifting extremely heavy weights, she joins Jessica to discuss adding bronze to her silver medal from Tokyo.
In 2020, Jade Blue McCrossen-Nethercott had the case against her alleged rapist dropped by the CPS. They said that the defence had suggested she suffered from ‘sexsomnia’, where a person performs sexual acts in their sleep. Jade Blue put in a Victim’s Right to Review and received an apology from the CPS for dropping the case, which cannot be re-opened. Jade Blue then sued the CPS – and has now received £35,000 in compensation for damages. Jade joins Jessica to tell her how it feels to have that compensation.
Throughout the summer we’ve been taking a look into the world of 'genre fiction' – the women who read it and the women who write it. In the latest of this series, we discuss science fiction. Seen by some as 'a genre for men,' there are lots of women authors and readers who think otherwise. Bafta-nominated screenwriter and playwright, Moira Buffini, who's written The Dig and TV series Harlots, joins Nuala to discuss her debut science fiction novel, Songlight. Larissa Lai, science fiction novelist and professor at University of Toronto, with two novels shortlisted by the Otherwise Award also joins Nuala.
The Paris Paralympics are two weeks away, and Nuala is joined by archery champion Jodie Grinham. Having already won a silver medal in Rio and a gold at this year's European Para Cup, Jodie will be looking to win a medal again this summer. She has already broken one record, being the first member of Team GB's para team to compete whilst pregnant.
What do you think of maternity clothes? For mums-to-be in 2024, it's apparently all about low-cut jeans and crop tops, moving away from traditional maternity wear. Retailers are recording a decrease of maternity clothes searches with women instead opting for regular clothes, perhaps in a bigger size. So why the shift? Jessica is joined by Assistant Fashion Editor at The Times, Hannah Rogers and influencer and author Alex Light to discuss.
Mary Bridget Davies is playing Janis in A Night With Janis Joplin. It's a biographical musical about the life of Janis Joplin and her musical influences. It includes all the big Janis hits, including Piece of My Heart, Cry Baby, Me and Bobby McGee performed by Mary - a role she was Tony-nominated for in the Broadway version of the musical.
Presenter: Jessica Creighton Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rory Stewart and I want to talk about ignorance. I will die without having read |
| 0:08.2 | everything that was written in classical Latin. Because ignorance isn't simply the opposite of knowledge. |
| 0:14.7 | It's part of what it means to be human. |
| 0:17.5 | Just about every game I can think of involves ignorance. |
| 0:22.1 | There's no adventure without ignorance. There's no there's no narrative. |
| 0:25.0 | The long history of ignorance from Confucius to Kianan |
| 0:29.0 | with me Rory Stewart, |
| 0:31.0 | listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello, I'm Jessica Crichton. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Woman's Hour Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour podcast. Welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour with me Jessica Crichton. |
| 0:46.0 | Coming up this week, Team G.B. Weightlifter Emily Campbell on winning her bronze medal, |
| 0:50.0 | that cartwheel celebration, and the importance of body positivity. |
| 0:54.7 | Also, the next installment in our genre fiction series, science fiction fans, yes, it's your turn. |
| 1:01.5 | Traditionally, it's been considered a male-dominated section, specifically |
| 1:05.3 | white male. |
| 1:06.3 | We'll take a look at why and what's changing. |
| 1:09.5 | And with the Paralympics just round the corner, Paralympian Archer Jody Grinnum, who's off the Paris very soon. |
| 1:15.4 | She's also 26 weeks pregnant, but what got her into the sport in the first place? |
| 1:20.8 | My dad did archery, I'd go and watch. I had no interest, you know, to me as a teenage girl, it looked boring, I wasn't going to lie. It was only until somebody at my dad's club had said due to my disability that I wouldn't be able to do Archery anyway, that that sort of twisted |
| 1:38.6 | then my interest as such, so I wanted to prove him wrong that I could actually do it. |
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