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Woman's Hour: Hilary Grime on her daugher Phoebe, Catherine Lee on Section 28, Tidying up v mess

30/01/2023

Hilary Grime on her daugher Phoebe, Catherine Lee on Section 28, Tidying up v mess

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Hilary Grime on her daugher Phoebe, Catherine Lee on Section 28, Tidying up v mess

Hilary Grime's daughter Phoebe, a university student, took her own life in 2021.

A mother’s fight to have her daughter’s story heard after she took her life whilst studying at University and her campaign for a statutory duty of care for students.

Hilary Grime’s daughter Phoebe, a student at Newcastle university, took her own life in June 2021.   Hilary has since come together with other bereaved families to form the Learn Network with the aim of preventing future deaths of students by suicide.  One of their first targets is to ask the government to legislate for a statutory duty of care for students in Higher Education.  Hilary joins Nuala to talk about her daughter Phoebe and why she thinks it's so essential to get a statutory duty of care.

Japan's decluttering and tidying expert Marie Kondo has admitted to 'kind of giving up' on tidying up after having her third child.  Joining Nuala to discuss whether to ignore the mess or try to keep on top of it, comedian Helen Thorn, one half of the Scummy Mummies podcast. 

In her latest book, Crazy Old Ladies - The Story Of Hag Horror, Caroline Young explores the subgenre of horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s that cast iconic movie stars in often grotesque roles. She joins Nuala McGovern to explain hag horror or 'hagsploitation' and to discuss how actresses were treated in Hollywood as they got older.  

It’s 20 years in England since the repeal of section 28 – a law that came in from 1988 to 2003 to ban the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in UK schools. Professor Catherine Lee of Anglia Ruskin University is a lesbian and taught in schools for every year of section 28. During that time she was a PE teacher in inner-city Liverpool before moving into special educational needs and pastoral leadership in rural Suffolk. So how did this law affect her other gay or lesbian teachers and her students who identified as lesbian or gay? Catherine has written a book Pretended: Schools and Section 28: Historical, Cultural and Personal.

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