
Helena Kennedy QC
Sue Lawley's castaway is human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy QC
Desert Island Discs · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the QC Helena Kennedy. In 1992 she published a book which drew attention to the way English law discriminates against women. She called it Eve was Framed. It began a debate into how we view defendants and victims and how our judges are trained. Born into a working-class family living on the south side of Glasgow, she recently entered the House of Lords. She says her father, a newspaper packer and an active trade unionist, would have been 'amused but proud'.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
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