DJ songwriter Sister Bliss. Deaths from cocaine. Starting a business during lockdown.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sister Bliss is a DJ, songwriter and one of Britain’s most iconic and long lasting female electronic artists. She is perhaps best-known as a member of the British electronic band Faithless. She joins Katya to talk about her thirty year career, going from the underground club scene to sell-out arena shows.
Female deaths due to cocaine have risen by 26.5% in 2019, according to the ONS. Why is the number of women dying from cocaine use increasing so rapidly?
The UK economy has taken a real hit during the pandemic with figures suggesting women with small business start ups in areas like beauty, leisure and hospitality being worst affected. But the crisis also seems to have spurred on many others to take the plunge and go out on their own.
And Dr Polly Russell the lead curator of a major new exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights’ which opens at the British Library tells us how the work of contemporary feminist activists in the UK has its roots in the long and complex history of women’s rights.
Presenter Katya Adler Producer Beverley Purcell
GUEST; Ian Hamilton GUEST; Maxine Luckhurst GUEST; Molly Masters GUEST; Emma Jones GUEST; Dr Polly Russell
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.1 | You're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast for Thursday the 22nd of October. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Katty Adler. |
| 0:11.7 | Hello and good morning. |
| 0:13.8 | Powder Cocaine, once labelled the middle-class party growers' drug of choice, is now the |
| 0:18.8 | second most frequently used illegal drug in the UK for adults aged between 16 and 59. |
| 0:26.4 | Reading numbers of women are dying from an overdose, we're going to hear today how across |
| 0:30.5 | the country women are using the drug to cope with housework, childcare and depression rather |
| 0:35.6 | than partying through the night. |
| 0:37.6 | Also on the programme we'll hear words and beats from Sister Bliss, DJ Songwriter and |
| 0:42.0 | one of Britain's most iconic and long-lasting female electronic artists. |
| 0:47.0 | Her band Faithless has a brand new album out, it's their first and ten years and she says |
| 0:51.1 | she's feeling the pressure of expectation. |
| 0:54.5 | And shoes, wedding day, disastrous job interview, the sandals your mum gave you in the middle |
| 0:59.5 | of a thunderstorm, happy, sad or actually just bonkers. |
| 1:03.1 | We want to hear from you the stories behind your three favourite pieces of footwear. |
| 1:09.0 | You can email us via the website or contact us on Twitter or on Instagram at BBC Woman's |
| 1:15.2 | Hour. |
| 1:16.2 | But first, being an entrepreneur, the owner of a start-up is always risky as we know, but |
| 1:22.0 | the nightmare that is the Covid crisis has sounded the death knell for businesses up and |
| 1:27.0 | down the country. |
| 1:28.0 | Later this morning, we're waiting to hear from the chancellor, he's expected to announce |
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