Eve Ensler, White Pearl, White Plimsolls
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues was first performed in 1996 and became a worldwide phenomenon. Her recent book The Apology is an imagined letter from her father apologising to her for a lifetime of devastating sexual, physical and emotional abuse. She tells Jenni why she's written the book from the perspective of her father and why it might provide a blue-print for apologies in the #metoo era.
In the European Elections over the weekend nearly half of the elected MEPs were women. Significantly, all three of them in Northern Ireland are now women. We analyse fast-moving politics from a Woman’s Hour point of view with Helen Lewis.
White Pearl is a comedy set in a Singapore-based cosmetics company which is having a PR crisis. The play is about an advert for a skin-lightening cream which goes public by accident but the problem is, it's racist. Jenni speaks to Anchuli ‘Felicia’ King, the writer of the play, and Kae Alexander who's one of the six Asian women trying to get the ad taken down as it goes viral. The play's on at The Royal Court in London.
White plimsolls are in fashion, so what's their history and why do we love them? We speak to Thomas Turner, author of The Sports Shoe: A History From Field To Fashion , and to Hannah Rochelle, author of the shoe-dedicated En Brogue book and blog.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour Podcast for Wednesday, the 29th of May. |
| 0:42.0 | 23 years ago, The Vagina Monologues was performed for the first time, the author of what became |
| 0:48.0 | a worldwide phenomenon is Eve Ensler. |
| 0:51.0 | Today we'll talk about her latest book, The Apology, the words she hoped to hear |
| 0:56.3 | from her abusive late father. White Pearl is a satirical comedy at the Royal Court Theatre in London |
| 1:03.8 | what inspired the themes of skin whitening, corporate culture, racism, |
| 1:08.1 | the cosmetics industry and social media, and white plimsolesoles the history of the sport shoe that's become a hot fashion item. |
| 1:18.0 | Now you may have noticed that politics continues to be something of a hot topic as the lineup of Hopefuls for |
| 1:24.7 | to be the May's job seems to grow day by day, but so far only two women Esther McVeigh and Andrea |
| 1:31.6 | Ledson have formally joined the list. It was a rather different |
| 1:36.0 | scene when the results of the European elections were revealed at the weekend. Nearly half |
| 1:40.9 | the MEPs elected were women and the three elected in Northern Ireland |
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