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Night Waves - Suffrage Plays

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4.2599 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Anne McElvoy talks to Debra Craine about British choreographer Akram Khan’s new work, iTMOi or In the Mind of Igor, which takes inspiration from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. Environmentalist George Monbiot's new book Feral argues for a "rewilding" of Britain, and a reintroduction of beavers, boars and controversially, wolves. Former Director of the National Trust Dame Fiona Reynolds has a totally different approach. New Generation thinker and Tudor historian Jonathan Healey reports from the new Mary Rose Museum. Naomi Paxton and Fern Riddell discuss the Actresses' Franchise League and the plays they wrote to support the cause of Women's Suffrage.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps

0:21.2

that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream

0:26.1

van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC sounds.

0:32.1

This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three.

0:40.8

The right of spring is the concert we heard a bit earlier tonight, and we'll be discussing Afgram Kahn's reinterpretation in a dance work at Sadler's Wells.

0:49.8

Also on the programme, The Drama of Democracy, a new book explores how the suffragettes use the stage to help win their case.

0:57.3

I've been made into a president or vice president or honorary secretary or supporter or something of the sort.

1:03.8

And I have to take the chair at a large meeting at the Imperial Hall next week and make a speech

1:08.3

and use all the anti-suffrage arguments on this wretched sheet of paper. Oh, it's like a nightmare to me.

1:15.5

A bit more on the suffragettes and their struggles later on, but first, sheep may safely graze.

1:21.2

Not for much longer if the environmentalist and author George Mombio has much to do with it.

1:25.8

Sheep are just one of the targets of his new book

1:28.0

entitled Ferrell. It argues that our manicured countryside with sheep, fences and subsidised

1:33.4

farming has stripped nature of its wildness and its serendipity. The result, he says, is a woolly plague.

1:39.9

Three sheep to every human in Wales, a thin parody of the more varied and dangerous natural world.

1:46.1

Yet the idea of rewilding has gained some attention in the fast few years, with attempts

1:51.3

to reintroduce wolves into New Mexico and other extinct species in the Alps and Eastern Europe.

1:56.8

So should Britain be where the wild things are and bring back the bears and the bison?

2:01.8

George Mombio joins me, and so does Dame Fiona Reynolds, former director of the National Trust,

2:06.4

on the line from hay among the sheep.

2:09.0

George, you want us to rewild to go back to a wilder world.

2:14.3

Paint for us a picture of what that world would look like.

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