Victoria Derbyshire's Interviews of the Week
Summary: The best moments from Victoria Derbyshire's morning programme, Monday - Friday on BBC Radio 5 live. Exclusive, news-making interviews, and powerful human interest stories.
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The leader of Britain's biggest union Unite speaks to 5 live listeners about the possibility of a general strike, defends his total salary package of over £100,000 and expresses doubts to Victoria Derbyshire over whether the Labour party could win the next general election.
Victoria speaks to one of the women who's made allegations against former Liberal Democrat Chief Executive Lord Rennard for behaving inappropriately towards her.
Victoria Derbyshire goes to see Rachel, the alcoholic doctor, who first called the programme in February 2011, at her home in Yorkshire.
Victoria Derbyshire speaks again to Rachel, the alcoholic doctor, who first called the programme in February 2011.
Rachel called Victoria, she's a doctor, and an alcoholic and was about to check herself into rehab. Another chance to hear her powerful story.
A father who successfully fought a legal battle for the right to have his adult autistic son live with him says his son's options are bleak and he could end up back in court.
Mother Sally Roberts, who tried to stop her son Neon receiving cancer treatment, says she has no regrets.
A woman who has been stalked for over a decade and whose stalker is due to be released soon says victims are still being let down.
Around a year ago a journalist started up a small project online - a website inviting women to submit any experience of sexism via email or twitter. It's called the Everyday Sexism Project and women have used it to record sexist behaviour they've experienced or witnessed. Victoria speaks to the journalist behind the project and to women who say they have experienced everyday sexism.
The parents of a two year-old who died at a nursery tell Victoria how they discovered a loophole which meant her death was not recorded on the nursery's Ofsted report.
This morning listen to an exclusive interview with The Secret Footballer - a professional player who writes anonymously about the game and has done since January 2011 billed as "lifting the lid on the world of football". In our interview he reveals the kind of racism which, he claims, happens routinely at clubs, he says that if he were gay he wouldn't come out for fear of abuse from away fans - and gives an insight into the psyche of some strikers who can be more concerned with how they themselves play, rather than how their team performs.
A day in the life of Great Ormond Street. Victoria Derbyshire visits some of the wards at the children's hospital.
In an exclusive interview a teenager convicted of naming a rape victim on Twitter refuses to apologise to her. Gemma Thomas, who's 18, tweeted a message which included the name of a woman raped by footballer Ched Evans.
Victoria Derbyshire is at an animal research centre in Oxford looking at the scientific research that takes place, watching scientists carrying out tests on thousands of mice in order to find new ways of treating diseases such as alzheimers and diabetes.
Sarah and her husband Chris tell Victoria what life is like since a coma wiped Sarah's memory of anything between 1998 and 2011 and left her thinking she was a 19 year old.