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Radio 4,27 Mar 2018,45 mins

Coercive Control

Woman's Hour

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Last week we spoke to writer Helen Walmsley-Johnson about her experience of being abused and coercively controlled. Helen said "this is a pattern of behaviour that is still under-reported, under-prosecuted and embedded in the humdrum of domesticity". We got such a huge response that we decided to devote a whole programme to the subject. We hear from three listeners with different experiences, Jane Keeper, director of operations at Refuge and Marianna Tortell from the Domestic Violence Intervention Programme.

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