
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers.
A long-time human rights campaigner, she's spent years immersing herself in the problems of people on the margins of society. During the time she was Chief Inspector, the prison population expanded hugely. "The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime."
Record: Handel's Messiah
Producer: Isabel Sargent.
By BBC Radio 44.7
4747 ratings
Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Dame Anne Owers.
A long-time human rights campaigner, she's spent years immersing herself in the problems of people on the margins of society. During the time she was Chief Inspector, the prison population expanded hugely. "The thing that saddened me greatly is that our prisons became better places but they also became places that soaked up a lot of money and into which we put a lot of people. My view is a lot of that money could have been better spent doing things that stopped people getting there in the first place and therefore prevented there being victims of crime."
Record: Handel's Messiah
Producer: Isabel Sargent.

7,707 Listeners

1,038 Listeners

400 Listeners

5,550 Listeners

1,882 Listeners

870 Listeners

608 Listeners

725 Listeners

1,829 Listeners

1,060 Listeners

2,052 Listeners

156 Listeners

81 Listeners

68 Listeners

51 Listeners

44 Listeners

3,158 Listeners

64 Listeners

113 Listeners

51 Listeners

171 Listeners

76 Listeners

537 Listeners

29 Listeners

720 Listeners