At a war crimes tribunal in 2009, Rob Hamill came face-to-face with Khmer Rouge commander, Comrade Duch, who was responsible for killing his brother.
Listen here.
Witness History: Cambodia War Crimes
Witness History: The Fall of Shanghai
THURSDAY 18th MAY: THE FALL OF SHANGHAI
In 1937, Japanese forces entered Shanghai – spelling the end of a period when the Chinese city had been a thriving commercial centre governed by international powers and known as the “Paris of the East”. Under the Japanese occupation, local people in Shanghai endured starvation and brutal treatment; while foreigners scrambled to escape as their lifestyle of servants and glamourous parties slowly disappeared. Josephine McDermott speaks to Liliane Willens, who lived through the Japanese invasion and occupation.
Witness History: Fighting For Uyghur Rights in China
In the 1980s, the minority Uyghur community in China staged some of the first protests against the all-powerful Communist Party. The Uyghurs were demanding that the Chinese government keep its promises to protect their culture and grant them political autonomy in Xinjiang region. In 1989, many Uyghur students enthusiastically supported the pro-democracy demonstrations centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. One of them was Aziz Isa Elkun, who talks to Josephine McDermott.
Witness History – Fighting for Uyghur rights in China – BBC Sounds
Witness History: Jean McLean and the Fairlea Five
BBC My World: Skating towards Tokyo 2020
Eleven-year-old Sky Brown is smashing the skateboarding world and beating adults much older than her.
From episode one of My World.
(25/1/20)
Victoria Derbyshire Programme: ‘Roaccutane should not be prescribed on NHS’
An exclusive on the acne drug Roaccutane. The parents of young people who have killed themselves and some patients with loss of libido are calling for the NHS not to prescribe it.
Manufacturer Roche said “millions of patients worldwide have benefited from taking the drug”.
The majority of those who take the drug have a positive experience.
Read article here.
(17 May, 2019)
Victoria Derbyshire Programme: ‘My boyfriend’s sperm, or a donor’s?’
“Emma” froze her eggs nine-and-a-half years ago.
She has been in a relationship for six months but, facing the loss of her frozen eggs in July, is now having to choose whether or not to ask her partner to fertilise them, or to fertilise them using a sperm donor.
Watch interview here.
(18 April, 2019)
Victoria Derbyshire Programme: Women’s frozen eggs ‘should be stored for longer’
Women who freeze their eggs should be allowed to keep them for longer than 10 years, fertility experts are telling the government.
Legislation says frozen eggs must be destroyed after this time, unless a medical condition has left the woman prematurely infertile.
Experts told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that the limit was arbitrary and had not kept up with technology.
The government has said an extension “would be a significant policy change”.
Continue reading here.
(21 January 2019)
Victoria Derbyshire Programme: Government ‘inaction’ over maternity discrimination
Scale of maternity discrimination hidden because of gagging orders
The scale of maternity discrimination is being hidden because of the use of gagging orders when women who have lost their jobs settle out of court, experts have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.
“My boss said if I’m not going back to work, then I’d have to pay back all the maternity payment.”
“Emma” – not her real name – was working as a beautician when she became pregnant.
She did not realise at the time that her boss’s request was against the law.
She was called into the salon and told by the owner she would no longer be needed at the company.
“I didn’t know what to do. I’m a single mum, no family. No-one can help me,” she tells the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme.
“How can I pay my rent? How can I pay my bills? I was floored.”