Real life with John Cowan. 2015-03-29. 19:30-20:00, Lesley Elliott.

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2015
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268840
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Year
2015
Reference
268840
Media type
Audio
Item unavailable online
Series
Real life with John Cowan.
Categories
Biographical radio programs
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio interviews
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:25:00
Credits
RNZ Collection
Cowan, John, 1956-, Presenter
Elliott, Lesley, Interviewee
Newstalk ZB (Radio station), Broadcaster

A weekly extended-interview programme broadcast nationwide on Sunday nights on Newstalk ZB. The programme features a different high-profile guest every week talking about their life, upbringing, passions, world-view, faith and spirituality. This recording is of a network feed from Auckland. There are holes in the broadcast to allow for stations to insert local content. Real Life with John Cowan is funded by New Zealand On Air. In today's programme:

Sophie Elliott died at the age of 22. She had been stabbed 216 times by her former boyfriend [Clayton Weatherston].

Sophie had just completed a first class honours degree in Economics at Otago University.

The day Sophie died she was packing to leave for Wellington to begin a promising career at NZ Treasury. Sophie was murdered in her own bedroom by an ex-boyfriend she had just ended a five month relationship with. The relationship had been punctuated with what we now know as typical partner abuse.

Because abusive behaviours are so common they can be readily identified – if you know the signs. Dating violence information can be found here.

The Sophie Elliott Foundation, will be explained by her mum Lesley, it is committed to enabling young women to identify warnings patterns and remove themselves safely from abusive relationships as early as possible.