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Harriet Wistrich, lawyer

Harriet Wistrich, lawyer, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.

Harriet Wistrich is one of the country鈥檚 most prominent human rights lawyers. In 2016 she founded the Centre for Women鈥檚 Justice and over the course of her career, she has won landmark victories in very difficult legal cases. She has helped women imprisoned after killing their abusers regain their freedom. She鈥檚 also represented women seeking justice from the Metropolitan Police over their deployment of undercover police officers who have had relationships and children with female activists.

After studying PPE at Oxford, Harriet moved to Liverpool and began her career working in film and documentaries. She retrained as a lawyer in her early thirties and in 1990 co-founded the pressure group Justice for Women.

Harriet lives in London with her partner, the journalist Julie Bindel.

DISC ONE: I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
DISC TWO: No Woman, No Cry (Live At The Rainbow Theatre, London / June 1, 1977) - Bob Marley and the Wailers
DISC THREE: Puff the Magic Dragon - Gregory Isaacs
DISC FOUR: Rumanian Freilach - Daniel Ahaviel
DISC FIVE: Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
DISC SIX: Ain鈥檛 Nobody - Chaka Khan
DISC SEVEN: Police And Thieves - Junior Murvin
DISC EIGHT: Shame Shame Shame - Shirley & Company

BOOK CHOICE: Middlemarch by George Eliot
LUXURY ITEM: A fridge with an endless supply of white wine
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Sarah Taylor

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