BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts hello,
I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks,
book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the lawyer and campaigner Harriet Wistrich.
She's one of the country's most prominent human rights lawyers
and has spent over 25 years advocating for women
and the powerless and pressing for change within the legal system.
She's won landmark victories in exceptionally difficult cases.
Helping women imprisoned after killing their abusers regain their freedom,
seeking justice for the victims of the so called black cab rapist,
John Warboys, and representing the women at the centre of the ongoing Spy Cops scandal.
Female activists who had relationships, sometimes children,
with men who were really undercover police officers.
Born and raised in London,
she started her working life as a filmmaker, sharing her ideas in documentaries.
But in her early 30s, retrained as a lawyer to help people directly.
In 1990, she co founded the pressure group justice for Women.