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Woman's Hour: Maggie Oliver, Music from the Alison Rayner Quintet & Mixed Weight Dating

16/01/2020

Maggie Oliver, Music from the Alison Rayner Quintet & Mixed Weight Dating

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Maggie Oliver, Music from the Alison Rayner Quintet & Mixed Weight Dating

Maggie Oliver, Alison Rayner Quintet & Mixed Weight Dating

Maggie Oliver the former detective on why she thinks the sexual exploitation of children is still happening today, the Alison Rayner Quintet performs & Mixed Weight Dating

Maggie Oliver, the former detective and whistleblower who exposed Greater Manchester Police’s poor handling of the sexual abuse of young girls in Rochdale, talks about the publication of the first part of an independent review into failures in the Investigation of the sexual grooming of children. She tells us why she thinks girls are continuing to be abused today.

A mother tells us about her daughter being able to access around 30 cosmetic procedures despite being under the age of 18. Caroline Payne a plastic and reconstructive surgeon discusses how and why this might happen.

We have music Alison Rayner Quintet.

We discuss the term ‘Mixed Weight Dating, used to describe a couple with a noticeable difference in body size or shape, with Steph Yeboah a plus size and body positive lifestyle blogger and Ebony Douglas the CEO of her own marketing and PR agency.

We hear from the heads of the UK’s only two women’s housing associations Zaiba Qureshi the Chief Executive of Housing for Women and Denise Fowler the Chief Executive of Women’s Pioneer Housing. How have women’s housing needs changed since the organisations were set up?

Presented by: Jenni Murray
Produced by: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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