On this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore anti-intellectualism, and how politicians have exploited its appeal.A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS Significant strides have been made in recent years in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. To begin to answer this, we need to understand the historical background: the Chinese Cultural Revolution.Ĭlaiming to purge the country of 'impure' elements, students were encouraged to attack their teachers. So what was Ai Weiwei really in prison for?
There was international outcry in 2011 when the celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing airport and imprisoned. This episode contains clips from the BBC Radio Five Live podcast ‘I’m Not A Monster: The Shamima Begum Story’
On this episode of Bad People Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen are joined by Josh Baker, the journalist behind ‘The Shamima Begum Story’, where for the first time her account of what happened is investigated. Four years later Shamima Begum, now nineteen, was found in a refugee camp and the UK Government revoked her citizenship, something she’s been trying to get back ever since.īut what would make a teenager want to join a group like Islamic State? What were the “push and pull factors” linked to ISIS radicalisation? They were going to join the so-called Islamic State. They were going to join thousands of recruits from across the globe in the Syrian city of Raqqa. But the East London schoolgirls were not going on holiday. In 2015, fifteen-year-old Shamima Begum left the UK with two of her friends on a flight bound for Turkey. Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie HagenĬommissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Elandīad People is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds. Why do people become prison pen pals and when is it unethical? In this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore how Hindley became an “unwitting architect” of whole-life sentences, and discuss the citizens who write to inmates.
What was unearthed during the police investigation, however, was that Hindley and Cairns had established a relationship - not only through interactions within the prison, but through the deeper communication of letter writing that spanned some two years. So when her escape plot from HMP Holloway in late 1973 is part-aided by then prison guard Patricia Cairns, there is dismay at why anyone would go to such lengths for someone convicted of Hindley’s crimes. For her role in the Moors Murders, Myra Hindley was for many years described as ‘‘the most hated woman in Britain’’.
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