Woman's Hour

Cyntoia Long-Brown, Being Fat, Children and Climate Change


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In 2006, 16 year old Cyntoia Brown-Long was sentenced as an adult to life in prison for killing a man while she was a teenage sex trafficking victim. Granted clemency in January this year and released in August, she tells us about her childhood and the impact of 16 years in prison.

As same sex marriage becomes available in the new year in Northern Ireland, we hear from Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles, the first couple in the UK to get a civil partnership fifteen years ago.

The Danish comic and podcaster Sofie Hagen says she's 'a fat liberationist who wants to abolish the systemic discrimination and abuse fat people endure on a daily basis'. So what's your experience of being fat? We hear from the plus-size model Bischamber Das and from listeners Farah, Les, Jo and Karen.

The Oscar-winning American actress Regina King has been named as one of the most influential people of 2019. She tells us about her leading role in the drama Watchmen.

What's the best way to talk to children about climate change, and are schools doing enough to educate this new generation? Caroline Hickman, a climate change researcher at the University of Bath, the eco-activist Ella Man and Fiona Cowen, the pre-school climate change headteacher at Bolsover Infants discuss.

Presenter: Jenni Murray

Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Siobhann Tighe

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