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Late Night Woman's Hour

Fyre Festival / Twerk / Plant-based diet

Late Night Woman's Hour

BBC

Unknown

4.6640 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With broadcaster Clara Amfo and journalists Ellen Coyne and Zoe Strimpel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there and a warm welcome to late night women's hour where anything goes.

0:04.7

I mean anything.

0:05.6

Three women come to the table with the stories and issues that they are burning to talk about

0:09.6

and I hope just let rip.

0:11.5

So let's do this.

0:12.6

Who have we got around the table today?

0:14.4

Ellen Coyne is Senior Ireland Reporter for the Times.

0:17.0

Zoe Strimple, historian of gender and relationships, author and columnist for the

0:21.0

Sunday Telegraph, and Clara Ampho, a presenter for BBC Radio One's Live Lounge, who also regularly

0:26.7

hosts many things, including Glastonbury. So hello to you all. And, Clara, I'm going to start

0:31.8

with you, if I may. Hi. We've talked a little bit already about the shop window, how we

0:37.2

presents ourselves online, especially in terms of online dating.

0:40.9

How we present ourselves online can lead to other people thinking they should be doing what I'm doing,

0:45.5

which brings me on to a new documentary on Netflix about the fire festival.

0:50.0

Talk us through what the fire festival was and what it kind of shows.

0:54.5

Fire Festival, the festival that never was, but almost could have been.

0:58.6

So this festival was started by this guy called Billy McFarland.

1:01.9

He's like a young sort of like, I'd say fairly like waspy, like upstart.

1:06.5

And he got in contact with Jarl, a famous rapper of the late 90s, early naughtyies, like always on time, all those kind of tunes.

1:13.9

So when it comes to booking, like, quote unquote, celebrity talent and DJs,

1:19.0

it can be quite tough for brand new festivals.

1:21.7

So this Billy guy kind of saw himself as quite well connected, but reached out to Jarlour because

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