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Woman's Hour: Stella Assange, Sexual assaults in hospitals, Comedian Zoe Lyons on her midlife crisis

Stella Assange, Sexual assaults in hospitals, Comedian Zoe Lyons on her midlife crisis

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Stella Assange, Sexual assaults in hospitals, Comedian Zoe Lyons on her midlife crisis

Nurses are set to be given body-worn cameras in a crackdown on hospital sexual assaults.

Stella Assange, the lawyer and wife of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks;  hospital sexual assaults and the plans for nurses to wear body-worn cameras.

Stella Assange is the wife of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing platform that publishes classified material provided by anonymous sources. He is currently being held in Belmarsh Prison pending extradition to the US, where he is wanted for 18 criminal charges related to obtaining and publishing classified information. Stella is leading a campaign to fight his extradition, which has been depicted in a new documentary, Ithaka. She tells Nuala why she thinks Julian should be released, how they first met and the impact of the campaign on their two young children.
Award-winning comedian Zoe Lyons tells Nuala about her ‘monumental' midlife crisis. It involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation and running a 100k ultra marathon… badly. Along the way, her hair started to fall out. Thankfully, Zoe has been able to explore the funny side and create her stand-up show Bald Ambition.
Nurses are set to be given body-worn cameras in a crackdown on hospital sexual assaults under new government plans. A recent report published by The Women’s Rights Network revealed that thousands of sex attacks have been reported in hospitals across England and Wales in the past 4 years. Nuala is joined by Heather Binning, Founder of The Women’s Rights Network, and Catriona Rubens, a solicitor at human rights law firm Leigh Day.
Dr Lil Stevens recently found out that her grandfather, Captain Leicester Stevens, had taken part in an expedition to find a dinosaur in the rainforests of the Congo known as the Congo 'thunder lizard' (later dismissed as a hoax) following World War 1.  Lil, who works at a palaeontologist, has dedicated her career to studying fossils and was amazed to discover the family connection.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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