Women’s refuges and disability, Aisling Walsh, Roxanne de Bastion

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In the last year, women with disabilities experienced domestic abuse at more than twice the rate of those without, according to the latest figures from the Crime Survey for England and Wales. Yet data from Women’s Aid shows less than 1% of refuge vacancies in England are suitable for wheelchair users. Where does this leave women with disabilities impacted by domestic abuse? Anita Rani hears about one anonymous woman’s experience and is joined by Angie Airlie, CEO of Stay Safe East and Rebecca Goshawk, a director of Solace Women’s Aid.

Singer Roxanne de Bastion’s grandfather was a Holocaust survivor and a renowned pianist. She joins Anita to discuss bringing his music to a modern audience and tracing his story for her book, The Piano Player of Budapest.

Aisling Walsh, Bafta-winning director of Room at the Top and Elizabeth is Missing, has a new project – the BBC series Miss Austen. Aisling speaks to Anita about the series, which reimagines the life of Cassandra Austen, Jane's sister, and her career in giving a voice to unheard stories through film and TV.

The Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA) was created to tackle misconduct across the arts and media sectors. But more than a year later, it’s struggling to secure funding and deliver on its mission. Anita hears from the CEO Jen Smith and Charisse Beaumont, CEO of Black Lives in Music, to explore the challenges CIISA faces and how the music industry can work towards being safer for women.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lottie Garton

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Greg Jenner. I'm the host of Your Dead to Me, where the best names in comedy and history
0:05.5	join me to learn about and laugh at the past. You are a traitor. And in the new series, we'll meet
0:11.2	Aristotle. I think he might have been a time traveller. Someone who's like almost a glitch.
0:15.3	We'll dive into the causes of the British Civil Wars in the 1600s. In England at this period,
0:19.8	there's people can't get on the housing ladder. This sounds familiar. And we'll discover the arts and crafts movement.
0:25.3	I love the clothes. I love the vibe. Yes, we're a comedy show that takes history seriously
0:29.3	and then laughs at it. You're dead to me. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio,
0:36.9	podcasts.
0:43.1	Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.
0:49.2	Just to say that for rights reasons, the music in the original radio broadcast has been removed for this podcast.
0:51.9	Good morning and welcome to the programme.
0:56.6	This morning, Stephen de Bastion was a Hungarian pianist and Holocaust survivor.
1:12.5	Tapes of him playing piano were unearthed by his granddaughter, Roxanne. Not only has she written a book about him, the piano player of Budapest, but she's also released an album sampling her grandfather's music, which we'll be hearing later in the program.
1:18.1	Director Ashling Walsh will be here to tell us about the new BBC drama, Miss Austin.
1:22.9	Plus one year on from a landmark report on misogyny in the music industry,
1:25.0	what progress has been made?
1:28.3	And you might have heard in the news that the Mona Lisa,
1:30.0	one of the world's most famous paintings,
1:32.5	will be getting her own room.
1:35.7	Not only a room, but her very own grand entrance to deal with the amount of visitors,
1:37.6	8.7 million last year that visited the Louvre and the Mona Lisa.
1:42.9	Anyone who's been in that throng to catch a glimpse of her will know it's time she got some space.
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