Hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, reminding you that while cinemas may be closed, there is still plenty of new movies to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your own home. The most mainstream release this week is the dig, A Bittersweet Real Life Drama about the unearthing of the sutton hoo treasures on the the eve of world war ii. What are they . Do you hazard a guess . Burials, men, id expect. We are standing in somebodys graveyard i reckon. Viking. Maybe older. Apparently local girls used to lie down on them in the hope of falling pregnant. Ive read plenty of legends. Ive heard plenty of legends. Is that why you want to dig, mrs pretty . Details of Buried Treasure . Ralph fiennes stars as basil brown, the self taught archaeologist who wears his immense learning lightly and who is enlisted by carrie mulligan s wealthy widow, edith pretty, to excavate the imposing Burial Mounds on her property. My interest in archaeology began like yours, edith tells the initia
And well talk about that. Youre also a lifelong advocate for survivors of abuse and you were hired by the Church Of England to be part of their independent Safeguarding Board, but youve been fired. Does all of that suggest to you that key institutions might talk the talk about protecting the vulnerable, but maybe theyre not so good on delivery . Absolutely, i would agree with that point. And specifically, my role was survivor advocate, so my role was specifically to be a voice for victims and survivors who had experienced spiritual abuse by the hands of members of the clergy across the board and to ensure that their views were not only heard, but embedded across policy and practice. So, from my perspective, i did thatjob. I sat with victims and survivors, i listened to the harrowing stories of abuse but, equally, those they went to who often looked the other way. And i shared those experiences with the highest of the highest, so the Archbishops Council members, made up of the most seni
before they see abuse, we ve got a problem. i saw that in my role at karma nirvana. i recall a police officer calling the helpline and i used to have beggar belief box on my emails, and this police officer rang the helpline and he said, i m ringing you because you deal with the cultural stuff, don t you, as an organisation? and the call handler listened to this call and he said, i ve got a man with me, who is from an afghanistan background here in britain, who is in a full blown relationship with a 14 year old girl and he s telling me it s part of his culture and his religion, so i don t want to offend him. could you just tell me if that is acceptable? so, the call handler stopped and she said, look, can we just remove culture, tradition, religion, whatever it is you re thinking it could be and look at the possible raft of offences here? look at the law. absolutely. now, you obviously have a very high profile for the work that we ve just discussed. the church of england
and on this question of implementation, you and others, including trevor phillips, the former chair of the equalities and human rights commission, have talked about what they see as a problem, from policing to politicians, with public officials who worry that if they are too interventionist in some of these cases, they will be labelled racist. absolutely. if people see culture before they see abuse, we ve got a problem. i saw that in my role at karma nirvana. i recall a police officer calling the helpline and i used to have beggar belief box on my emails, and this police officer rang the helpline and he said, i m ringing you because you deal with the cultural stuff, don t you, as an organisation? and the call handler listened to this call and he said, i ve got a man with me, who is from an afghanistan background here in britain, who is in a full blown relationship with a 14 year old girl and he s telling me it s part of his culture and his religion, so i don t want to offend
parents migrated from india concerted effort of awareness, to the uk, to the midlands, people in schools, teachers in england. need to be talking about this, they wanted to arrange because they re the most affected group children and young people. your marriage. indeed, i think, from the age of eight, they were talking so, yes, we ve created laws, but to shift a culture about who you would marry. you, as a teenager, and a mindset, we ve got to continue speaking out rejected that, didn t you? and accepting this is not part idid. of somebody s culture. i was promised to somebody and on this question by the age of eight and i d of implementation, watched my sisters being taken you and others, including trevor phillips, the former out of british schools to marry chair of the equalities men in photographs. and human rights commission, when it was my turn, it was in order of age, have talked about what they see i said no. i was born in britain, as a problem, from policing to politicians, w