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🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Victims groomed and raped by gangs have told the BBC's Senior UK Correspondent Sima Kotecha that they are adamant the crime is still happening to girls across the country. This week, a Tory amendment to the government's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which wanted a national inquiry into grooming gangs, was voted down. Krupa Padhy talked to Sima and Simon Morton, a former senior investigating officer for Thames Valley Police, about what is known about how these gangs operate.
Lucy Lawless, best known for playing Xena: Warrior Princess, joined Nuala McGovern to discuss another fearless woman. In her directorial debut, Never Look Away, she explores Margaret Moth, a warzone camerawoman for CNN who covered conflicts from the liberation of Kuwait in the early 90s to the Lebanon War in the mid-2000s armed only with a camera and an attitude.
A new law change has made the creation of explicit deepfakes illegal, with those found guilty facing up to two years in prison. Nuala was joined by Durham Law Professor Clare McGlynn to hear more about what this means, and Channel 4's Cathy Newman, who was a victim of deepfakes herself, gives her thoughts.
Victoria Melluish is a listener who wrote to us to highlight women working in environmentally hostile environments and to encourage more women to get out in the field. Victoria is currently employed as a marine mammal specialist and expedition guide on a cruise expedition ship. She says, 'I’m 30 and I work in the Arctic and Antarctic, and I often get asked how I manage having endometriosis while driving Zodiac boats around glaciers and marine megafauna.' Nuala spoke to her about her work.
2025 is a big year for former Strictly professional Oti Mabuse who is judging Dancing on Ice, then going on tour and publishing her first adult novel. She joined Krupa to talk about these projects, becoming a mother and how being on I’m A Celebrity taught her the importance of sharing feelings.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Annette Wells Editor: Rebecca Myatt
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0:52.0 | On today's programme, from the dance floor on Strick strictly to being neck high in a tank full of scorpions and beachworms in the jungle. |
1:00.9 | Oti Mabusi is doing it all. She joins us ahead of her judging duties in the new series of Dancing on Ice which kicks off this weekend. |
1:09.0 | The government is going to make creating sexually explicit deep fake images a criminal offence. |
1:15.1 | We hear from Channel 4's Cathy Newman about her experience of being deep faked and the potential impact of this new law. |
1:22.8 | Actor Lucy Lawless of Zena Warrior Princess Fame tells us about the incredible life and career of the fearless war zone camera woman Margaret Moth. |
1:32.3 | Also, we'll go south to Antarctica with a listener who got in touch to share her experience of working as a marine mammal specialist at the end of the earth. |
1:42.6 | With humpback whales, they are the most musical of all of the whales. |
1:46.3 | They tend to sing, especially the males, extremely acrobatic. |
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