Weekend Woman's Hour: The award-winning composer Shirley J Thompson, Domestic Violence Prevention & Managing our data
Shirley J Thompson on her new work Emanation, the effectiveness of domestic violence prevention programmes, and Cori Crider on how we can better protect our data.
Composer Shirley J. Thompson is the first woman in Europe to have composed and conducted a symphony within the last 40 years. She tells us about her new work Emanation, which sheβs written for the disabled-led ensemble BSO.
Dame Darcey Bussell Former Principal of The Royal Ballet & Strictly Judge, President of the RAD & creator of Diversity Dance Mix, Dame Darcey Bussell tells us about her mission to rescue Britainβs ballet dancers and raise spirits and money for struggling dance companies by creating the British Ballet Charity Gala at the Royal Albert Hall in London bringing together eight ballet companies in one evening of dance.
We discuss the results of a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Freedom of Information request which asked police forces in the UK how many police had been accused of sexual misconduct. We hear from our reporter Melanie Abbott, from Ruth a former officer who found herself being sexually assaulted by a colleague and Harriet Wistrich from the Centre for Womenβs Justice.
This year the government has announced an extra 19 million pounds for domestic abuse schemes in England and Wales the majority of which will go to towards perpetrator programmes. . But just how effective are they? We hear from John who has just completed a 20 week domestic violence prevention programme at the Hampton Trust and to Vicky Gilroy who is a facilitator on those prevention programmes at the Trust.
In todayβs online digital world everything we do now on our phones or our computersβeverything we look at, click on or say onlineβbecomes βdataβ. Companies and governments increasingly share and use this information to make decisions about our lives. A small UK based team of experts called Foxglove is challenging how our dataβs used and theyβve had some remarkable successes over the last year. Itβs director Cori Crider tells us how the group successfully challenged the A Level grading algorithm last year.
Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Siobhann Tighe
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