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Domestic Violence or Coercive Control

What do you keep in your handbag? The 'boomerang kids' and the parents whose grown-up kids keep moving back home. And should domestic violence be renamed 'coercive control'?

What do you keep in your handbag? The German artist who''ll pay you 500 euros if you let him feature your bag in his exhibition in London. A government consultation asks whether the term domestic violence should be widened to include the phrase "coercive control". How proposed changes to pensions will affect more than 500,000 women across the UK. And following our interview with a mother labelled a significant risk of harm to her son following a visit to her GP for mild depression, we hear from listeners and a GP about their concerns it will put off some women from coming forward for treatment.

Presenter Jenni Murray.
Producer Luke Mulhall.

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58 minutes

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Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Chapters

  • Seeing Your GP About Depression

    Jenni is joined by Dr Clare Gerada, a London-based GP and Chair of Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

    Duration: 07:40

  • Domestic Violence - Should the Definition Change?

    Sam Baker, Editor of Red Magazine, which has launched a campaign called Speak Up, Save A Life and Diana Barran, Chief Exec of national charity Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse, join Jenni.

    Duration: 10:11

  • Handbag Art

    Reporter Luke Mulhall visits London’s Serpentine Gallery where a retrospective of Hans-Peter Feldmann’s work features the contents of six women’s handbags displayed as art.

    Duration: 06:21

  • Pensions

    What would an active older workforce mean for society? Jenni is joined by Ros Altmann, Director General of Saga and by Owen Jones, author and columnist at the Independent.

    Duration: 08:44

  • Cuckoo In the Nest

    Comedian Nat Luurtsema and writer Kate Figes, mother of a 23 year old who has moved in and out several times, join Jenni to discuss moving back in with parents

    Duration: 08:47

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  • Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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