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Woman's Hour

Wendy Joseph KC, Storm chasers, Remembering sex therapist Dr Ruth, Insta’s Fake Guru

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Former Old Bailey judge, Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC, lifts the lid on our legal system. Having worked in criminal courts for almost half a century, she is still asking: what is justice? She tells Nuala McGovern some of the ways women and children struggle through the legal system - and why she wanted to highlight these issues in her latest book, Rough Justice.

Twisters – the sequel to 1996 disaster-tornado film Twister – has been accused of playing into sexist tropes about storm chasers and meteorologists. But what’s it actually like being a female storm chaser? Nuala speaks to meteorologist Karen Kosiba from the Centre for Severe Weather Research in Colorado and to founder of the Midlands Storm Chasers group Vicky Royce-Pagett about the new film and why they find storm chasing so fascinating.

Over the weekend, the sex therapist Ruth Westheimer died at the age of 96. In the 1980s, her ability to talk with good-natured candour about intimate sexual matters made her a big hit on American radio and TV and she was known to audiences as Dr. Ruth. We were lucky enough to speak to her in 2019.

Last month, Kat Torres, a former model and wellness influencer, was sentenced to eight years in prison in Brazil after being found guilty of human trafficking and slave labour. Nuala talks to BBC Journalist Hannah Price who’s made a documentary about Kat’s story: Like, Follow, Trafficked: Insta’s Fake Guru.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Maryam Maruf Studio manager: Donald McDonald

Transcript

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0:00.0

He is Brian Cox.

0:02.8

Hello.

0:03.3

And he understands science.

0:05.4

I'm Robin Ince and I don't understand it quite so much.

0:09.0

Could he tell us something about the nature of matter?

0:11.3

Nope.

0:12.0

Okay, good.

0:13.2

Together we'll be joined by a collection of experts and non-expert guests.

0:18.6

What's going on?

0:19.8

Don't you know.

0:21.6

Taking a look at some of the most wonderful things

0:24.4

in the scientific world.

0:25.9

Science with Funny Bits, The Infinite Monkey Cage

0:29.3

on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds. B. C. Sounds. Music Radio Podcasts.

0:37.0

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

0:41.0

Just to say that for rights reasons the music in the original radio

0:44.8

broadcast has been removed for this podcast. Hello and welcome to

0:49.0

Woman's Hour. How are you feeling this morning? Perhaps a little bleary-eyed and disappointed with the result of the

0:55.2

men's euros with Spain beating England last night well if so you are not alone but how are you

1:01.8

managing it any tips for those that are dejected, maybe

1:05.4

you're doing something to help you over the hump, or maybe you were supporting Spain,

1:10.0

or maybe you think it's high time to not hear mention of a football that you're so over it.

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