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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Women at breaking point, Revenge porn, The term 'witch'

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Why the latest lockdown has left so many women feeling at breaking point as they try to juggle home schooling and working from home simultaneously. Annie tells us her story and we hear from Leann Cross the Director of Homestart Greenwich and Sam Smethers the former Chief Exec of the Fawcett Society,. Model and TV personality, Zara McDermott talks about revenge porn. Intimate images of her were shared without her consent when she was 14 and again when she was 21. Sharing explicit or intimate images without consent has been illegal since 2015, when Baroness Morgan was in office as Minister for Women and Equalities. Baroness Morgan joins the discussion to talk about the change to the law, which has been failing women and girls. Harry Dunn was just 19 when he was was killed on his motorbike in Northamptonshire in 2019 when an American woman was driving on the wrong side of the road. His mum Charlotte Charles tells us about the latest ruling in the campaign to get Harry justice. Why are so many girls and women suffering from vulva anxiety? Alix Fox, a sex journalist, broadcaster and educator, and Dr Naomi Crouch, the Chair of the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology discuss. A new TV campaign is urging people from BAME backgrounds to take the Covid-19 vaccine, We hear from Mehreen Baig who's backing the campaign and Dr Binita Kane a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Manchester University Foundation Trust. And the Classics scholar Mary Beard on how the term ‘witch’ has been used as an insult which she believes is an attempt to discredit her and older women generally. Presenter Anita Rani Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour

0:08.6

from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.4

Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour.

0:13.8

Today we discuss the consequences of revenge porn

0:17.3

on one woman and how the government

0:19.2

is trying to tackle the issue.

0:21.5

Harry Dunn was the 19-year-old who was killed

0:24.0

on his motorbike in Northamptonshire in 2019

0:27.3

when an American woman was driving the wrong way.

0:30.2

His mum, Charlotte Charles,

0:31.7

tells us about the latest ruling concerning his case

0:34.6

and why campaigning has been so vital for her and her family.

0:38.8

I still live in with the pain every day,

0:41.0

you know, every fiber of your body still hurts.

0:44.6

But I think our mental health would have been far, far worse

0:47.4

if we hadn't had the campaign to really focus

0:50.9

some of our anger and some of our grief.

0:54.1

We discuss why the term which is being used

0:56.7

as an insult to older women with Mary Beard

0:59.6

who has personal experience of this.

1:01.7

And vulva anxiety, why are so many girls and women

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