Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women

Diana Parkes and Hetti Barkworth-Nanton

<p>On Halloween in 2010, Joanna Simpson was beaten to death by her estranged husband, Robert Brown. Prior to her death, the mum-of-two had filed for divorce after enduring years of abuse. In a first for the podcast, we are joined by not one but two difficult women; Her mother, Diana Parkes, and her best friend, Hetti Barkworth-Nanton. Together they have campaigned tirelessly for stricter prosecution for domestic violence. </p>

Well-behaved women rarely make history – as someone once said – difficult women do.
In this new LBC new podcast, Rachel Johnson's Difficult Women, Rachel will be talking to women who had to be a pain in the backside to get where they are today. 
Women who take the word difficult as a compliment not an insult. And women who had to fight, resist, insist, or otherwise be badly behaved in order to get things done.

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