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Woman's Hour: Take Back ConTROLL, Louise Candlish, Rape Trials and the Court of Public Opinion

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Take Back Control, Louise Candlish, Rape Trials and the Court of Public Opinion

17/04/2018

Take Back ConTROLL, Louise Candlish, Rape Trials and the Court of Public Opinion

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Take Back ConTROLL - four women trying to do just that after being abused online.

Take Back ConTROLL - four women trying to do just that after being abused online. Plus author Louise Candlish on her new novel, Our House.

Two rugby players have had their contracts terminated after they were cleared of rape in a trial which has sparked what many have described as Northern Ireland's '#Me Too moment'. In the wake of movements like #MeToo and #IBelieveHer we discuss whether is it a concern that legal outcomes in rape and sexual assault cases may be undermined by public opinion?

"I wanted to write a Gone Girl for the property obsessed," says author Louise Candlish. And she's done just that with her latest book, Our House, in which the main character arrives home to find a removals van outside her house, her belongings gone and a stranger standing on her doorstep. Louise joins Jane to talk about property obsession and the lies and twists in her twelfth novel. 

Take Back ConTROLL - that's what a group of women are trying to do after being abused online. Here at Woman's Hour we brought these four women together with a London advertising agency, Mother, to see if together they could come up with a campaign that would help them reclaim their identity online and find a solution for this growing social problem. Emma Barnett went to meet them and over the next few weeks you will hear Charley, Jackie, Charlotte and Kelly all share their experiences. Today it's Charley. 

The Australian actress and screenwriter Daisy Aitkens joins Jane to discuss her new film - You, Me and Him. It tells the story of lesbian couple Olivia and Alex. Through a combination of covert fertility treatment and a drunken assignation with a male neighbour, both women find themselves pregnant at the same time.

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