Teacher-pupil relationship; Storme Toolis in New Tricks
The show that offers a female perspective on the world. Emma Barnett discovers how to keep the teacher-pupil relationship safe, and talks to Inbetweeners actress Storme Toolis.
Emma Barnett presents.
The relationship between a teacher and pupil is inevitably a strong one, so what's being done to stop it crossing the line and becoming abuse?
If your parents divorce when you're grown up and no longer living at home does it hurt more or less?
Making tiles from concrete and linen, a modern way to unite Northern Ireland's manufacturing industries.
And actress Storme Toolis talks about her new part in New Tricks and how as a wheelchair user, she sidesteps the inevitable role of hospital patient.
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Teacher and student relationships
What happens when pupils and teachers develop strong feelings for one another?
Duration: 16:28
Storme Toolis
The actress and wheelchair-user discusses her latest role in New Tricks
Duration: 06:34
Linen and Concrete
Two women from Belfast combine linen and concrete to create a new building material
Duration: 08:21
Divorce in later life
How does late life divorce affect grown children?
Duration: 11:20
Teacher and Student Relationships
What happens when pupils and teachers develop strong feelings for one another?聽聽 What is in place in schools and during teacher training to prevent these from developing, and what happens when an abusive relationship begins?聽 Emma Barnett speaks to Ella, a young woman who was groomed and sexually abused by a teacher at her school from the age of 14.聽 He is currently serving a 12 year sentence.聽聽 Ella has documented her experiences in a programme for Radio 1 called 鈥淭empted by Teacher鈥,聽 in which she speaks聽 to students the same age as she was when the abuse began.聽 How aware were they of the dangers of teacher/student relationships?聽聽聽 Also taking part is Brian Lightman, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
Storme Toolis
Storme Toolis is an actress and a wheelchair-user, who brought authenticity to her disabled character in The Inbetweeners Movie.聽 Her latest role is in 麻豆官网首页入口 One鈥檚 New Tricks, in which she plays Holly Griffin, a confident, feisty young woman who is a law student and has a boyfriend.聽 Storme joins Emma Barnett to explain how she can relate to this character, and how refreshing it is, as a wheelchair user, to be cast as a true reflection, rather than as the butt of jokes, hospital patients or car crash victims.
New Tricks in on 麻豆官网首页入口 One on Tuesday 27 August at 9pm.
Linen and Concrete
The linen industry was once one of the mainstays of the Northern Irish economy when the beautiful fine cloth was exported around the world. 聽However, due to rising costs at home and increasing competition from abroad there is now very little linen manufacturing in Northern Ireland. But two women are determined to continue the country's long relationship with the textile. Professor of Architecture Ruth Morrow and Trish Belford, Textile Designer joined forces to use linen in a new way.聽Their company, , takes fabric and combines it with concrete to form a building material that aims to be as beautiful as it is useful.聽 Helen Mark went to meet the women, and see the linen and a vat of sludgy concrete.
How does late life divorce affect grown children?
There is no doubt that parents divorcing is difficult for any family to deal with but it is often assumed that a separation in later life will be less disruptive for adult children. Woman鈥檚 Hour investigates whether the effect on adult children of divorce may be underestimated. Guest presenter, Emma Barnett, is joined by writer and advice columnist Bel Mooney, and we hear the mixed experiences of some of our listeners.
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Role Contributor Presenter Emma Barnett Interviewed Guest Ella Interviewed Guest Brian Lightman Interviewed Guest Bel Mooney Interviewed Guest Ruth Morro Interviewed Guest Storme Toolis Producer Kirsty Starkey Broadcast
- Tue 27 Aug 2013 10:00麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 4
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