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Nicola Sturgeon; Jung Chang; Gone With the Wind

WH power-lister and deputy first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon; Chinese cooking with writer Jung Chang; Gone With the Wind; and keeping safe while travelling at night.

Powerlister Nicola Sturgeon talks about being deputy first minister of Scotland and her political career. We look at the latest figures on forced marriage for people with learning difficulties. How should professionals best intervene? 75 years on and Gone With the Wind is being screened again. Why is it so enduring and what is the film's feminist appeal? What you need to know about travelling home safely after a christmas night out. And our 'Come Into My Kitchen' series continues as we visit the home of Wild Swans writer Jung Chang.

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58 minutes

Chapters

  • Nicola Sturgeon, MSP and Woman's Hour Powerlister

    Nicola Sturgeon talks to Jenni about her political career

    Duration: 11:07

  • Travel Safety

    Over 40% of women admit they are likely to take an illegal minicab home after a night out

    Duration: 08:41

  • Come into my Kitchen - Jung Chang

    The writer shows our reporter around her kitchen

    Duration: 05:04

  • Gone With the Wind

    What is the film鈥檚 feminist appeal?

    Duration: 09:50

  • Forced marriage and people with learning disabilities

    How should professionals best intervene?

    Duration: 08:30

Nicola Sturgeon, MSP and Woman's Hour Powerlister

joined the Scottish National Party at the age of 16, and after training as a lawyer stood unsuccessfully to become an MP in the 1990s. Her political career took off after devolution when she was elected as an additional MSP in 1999. She became a member of the Scottish government and as health minister abolished prescription and hospital car parking charges. Now the Deputy Leader of the SNP, she has a central role in overseeing the referendum for Scottish Independence and has been involved in key negotiations with Westminster. She talks to Jenni听about her political career.

Travel Safety

Over 40% of women admit they are听likely to take an illegal minicab home after a night out, according to a new survey conducted in London, Manchester and Birmingham by .听Siwan Hayward, Deputy Director of Enforcement and On-Street Operations at TfL who commissioned the and Hannah Betts,听feminist writer and party-goer, discuss the issues with Jenni.

Come into my Kitchen - Jung Chang

Jung Chang听is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans and has also written Mao, The Unknown Story. She writes at home, where she showed听Henrietta Harrison around her kitchen.

Gone With The Wind

Seventy five years听from it's first screening, what is it that makes Gone With the Wind so enduring and听what is the film鈥檚 feminist appeal?听Journalist Hannah Betts and Helen Taylor, author of Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind and Its Female Fans and Professor of English, Exeter University, join Jenni.听听听听

Forced marriage and people with learning disabilities

We look at the latest figures on forced marriage among听people with learning difficulties. How should professionals best intervene? The number of cases of forced marriage involving people with disabilities almost doubled from 66 in 2011 to 114 in 2012鈥. The government鈥檚 Forced Marriage Unit, a collaboration between the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, says this figure 鈥渄oes not reflect the full scale of abuse鈥 and that many cases still go unreported 鈥 often because social workers and other frontline professionals are fearful of being branded culturally insensitive by the families of victims.

Guests: Rachael Clawson, a Lecturer in Social Work at Nottingham University and Sandie Keene, President of the .

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest Nicola Sturgeon
Interviewed Guest Jung Chang
Interviewed Guest Hannah Betts
Interviewed Guest Siwan Hayward
Interviewed Guest Helen Taylor
Interviewed Guest Rachael Clawson
Interviewed Guest Sandie Keene
Producer Louise Corley
Editor Karen Dalziel

Broadcast

  • Wed 18 Dec 2013 10:00

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