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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour:  The Whyte Review into British Gymnastics, Lea Ypi, Rosie Kinchen on horticultural therapy

18/06/2022

Weekend Woman's Hour:  The Whyte Review into British Gymnastics, Lea Ypi, Rosie Kinchen on horticultural therapy

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What difference will the Whyte Review into abuse in British Gymnastics make?

Following a two-year investigation into bullying, abuse and discrimination the Whyte Review into British Gymnastics is finally published. We hear from ex-gymnast Claire Heafford, co-founder and campaign director of Gymnasts 4 Change, and Sarah Moore, lawyer and partner at Hausfeld who are acting on behalf of 38 former elite gymnasts against British Gymnastics in relation to allegations of abuse.

In her prize-winning memoir, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Lea Ypi describes what it was like to grow up in Albania under a strict communist regime. Lea joins us to talk about her extraordinary coming-of-age story in Europe's last Stalinist outpost.

Rosie Kinchen explains how horticultural therapy helped her overcome depression after having her second child. She discusses finding solace in a community garden.

Her newspaper only launched 14 weeks before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, but the Kyiv Independent now has over two million followers on Twitter, and has been described by Time Magazine as: "The world's primary source for reliable English-language journalism on the war." We speak to the Editor of the newspaper, Olga Rudenko.

A new film, Below the Belt, documents the reality of living with endometriosis. We hear from director Shannon Cone.

Listener Christian Peake inherited a huge stack of canvasses painted by her grandmother, the artist Maeve Gilmore, whose artistic work had been over-shadowed by her more famous husband Mervyn Peake. As time went on though she became increasingly determined to get Maeve’s work the recognition she feels it deserves. Her grandmother's first exhibition is now on at Studio Voltaire in Clapham, London.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lucy Wai
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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