Summary
Somaliland’s first midwife, first Foreign Minister and former First Lady, Edna Adan Ismail tells us what galvanised her campaign to end the practice of FGM and why now in her 80s she still works at the hospital she helped to build in her homeland.
We discuss the rise and fall of the bonkbuster with the author Lauren Milne Henderson, Maisie Lawrence editor at Bookouture and Sareeta Domingo editor at Mills and Boon.
The Composer Errollyn Wallen’s work stretches back four decades, she tells us about her latest work with the BBC Proms. A new orchestral work titled This Frame is Part of the Painting.
We talk about the impact of The Country Girls by the Irish author Edna O’Brien. It was banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burned publically in her hometown when it was first published. We hear from Lin Coghlan who has adapted it for radio and from the literary critic Alex Clark.
How should you talk about the subject of race and racism to your children? Behavioural Scientist Dr Pragya Agarwal and blogger Freddie Harrel tell us about their personal experiences.
We discuss the latest show from Zoo Nation Youth Tales of the Turntables with dancer Portia Oti and Director and Choreographer Carrie-Anne Ingrouille.
Presented by Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Lucinda Montefiore
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:34.3 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:36.1 | In today's programme, Edna O'Brien's Country Girls is to be the next Women's Our |
| 0:41.6 | serial. Why was it considered so shocking it was banned and burned? |
| 0:47.6 | Errolin Wallin is the first black woman to have had her music played at the prons. Why did she become a composer? |
| 0:56.0 | Though I'd studied undergrad and postgrad, it wasn't until, I'd say sort of mid-20s, I thought, no, I must be a composer. a day I'm thinking I'm actually going to die |
| 1:05.0 | unless I write the string quartet I'm actually going to die. It's just like a burning |
| 1:10.0 | inside and it took hold of me. |
| 1:12.0 | Another kind of music at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London South Bank. |
| 1:16.0 | Zoo Nation Youth perform tales of the turntable with hip-hop, funk, soul, disco, house and rap. |
| 1:26.1 | Talking to your children about racism, what's the best way |
| 1:29.8 | to approach the topic? |
| 1:31.7 | And the Bunkbuster, once selling millions of copies, why is its popularity |
| 1:37.7 | waning? Perhaps the Bunkbuster served a purpose, you know, five to ten years ago. |
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