Woman's Hour - 27/10/2009

With Jenni Murray. The best-selling American crime writer Patricia Cornwell joins the programme to talk about her new book. First introduced back in 1990, Dr Kay Scarpetta, the workaholic forensic scientist, is making her 17th appearance. Patricia tells Jenni how Kay, and the other characters in her books, have developed over the last 20 years. Research suggests that jurors may still have misconceptions about how rape victims are most likely to behave, both immediately after the attack and while giving evidence in court. So should juries be systematically educated about the range of possible responses to a sexual assault? Woman's Hour hears from barrister David Wolchover and Jennifer Temkin, Professor of Law at the University of Sussex. A BBC online archive collection of suffragette voices has become available to the public for the first time. Ranging from Dame Ethel Smyth describing her arrest for throwing a stone to Mary Richardson's account of being force-fed in Holloway prison, the collection brings the stories of the suffragettes vividly to life. Woman's Hour hears a selection of the best. A listener emailed the programme recently to say that she is something of a running joke among her friends because she continues to use cotton handkerchiefs in favour of the paper variety. In response, Jenni talks to another die-hard handkerchief fan and hears about the history of this small square of cloth.