 Penguin Jumpers and Polo Necks | |
|  | | Victims of domestic violence often wear polo necks |
| | The generosity of the people of Shropshire is renowned - but is there another, less charitable, element to the character of the county? |
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| | Penguin Jumpers and Polo Necks
12.05pm Sunday 28th April
Repeated 6.30pm Wednesday
Penguin Jumpers and Polo Necks contrasts how Salopians enthuse over projects such as knitting jumpers for Tasmanian penguins and their "head in the sand" attitude to issues such as domestic violence, assault and sexual abuse.
 | Jumpers for penguins |
Diana, a victim of domestic violence poignantly tells of her experience and explains the "polo neck sweaters are more than common in the world" - a world where it is imperative to hide the bruises and the scars of a wounding marriage.
Andrew - a dashing young man of twenty-two, confides that he feels "ugly" and is less confident than he wants to be. Why? His face is scarred following an attack with a broken glass. His mother is infuriated that local people "just don't want to know what goes on in Shropshire."
Jane is just one of the thousands of people who have sought help from Axis - a Shropshire charity devoted to helping adult victims of sexual abuse. The charity's founder, Liza Morgan, is in no doubt that Salopians "turn away from the subject - they don't want to think it happens".
Meanwhile the knitters of Shropshire wholeheartedly embrace a conservation cause twelve thousand miles away. Margaret Todge, is convinced of Salopians' generosity yet feels "the nice things we enthuse about but the nasty things.. we don't do a lot about it.
Be warned: Penguin Jumpers and Polo Necks may not be a comfortable listen. | | | |
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