Olive Morris, Eileen Flynn, Women and Gaming

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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It's 41 years this Sunday that Olive Morris died. She was a Black British feminist and civil rights campaigner. A couple of weeks ago, Google marked what would have been her 68th birthday with a drawing of her on its header. So who was Olive Morris and who are some of the other Black British female activists from the past who we should know about? We talk to Angelina Osborne, a researcher and lecturer, and Olivette Otele who's a professor specialising in Black female history.

Eileen Flynn is the first Traveller to be made a Senator in the Irish Parliament. The Irish PM, or Taoiseach, can nominate a handful of people to work in the Upper House and a couple of weeks ago Eileen was one of them. She says it’s an historic moment, especially for Travellers who are so marginalized and stigmatized in Irish society. She talks to us from her home in Donegal.

All week we’ve been looking at women and gaming. We've explored how gaming has changed and how it can improve some people's mental health. The UK gaming industry is worth billions and the video games sector makes up more than half of the UK’s entire entertainment market. Women are 50% of those who play and those over 40 are among the fastest growing group of people that play on their smartphones. But the number of women working in the industry is much lower and today we hear from them.

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0:41.0	Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Hour Podcast from Friday, July the 10th, 2020.
0:47.0	Good morning to you. Welcome to the program. In a moment or two I'm talking to Eileen Flynn, who somebody she's a historic figure she's the first
0:54.2	traveler to be made a senator in the upper house of the Irish Parliament we'll talk to
0:58.8	Eileen in a moment or two we've been discussing women and gaming throughout the week on Women's Hour and today you can hear from three very brilliant young women all paving their own way in the gaming industry at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it as well. And we also will be celebrating black female British
1:14.9	activism and talking in particular about olive Morris the black British
1:19.3	feminist and civil rights campaigner let's go to Donagall then in Ireland and talk to and House of the Irish Parliament, the Shannad. The Irish Prime Minister, or T-shirt, can
1:34.6	nominate a handful of people to work in the Shannad. And a couple of weeks ago, Eileen Flynn
1:40.1	was one of them. And she's able to join us now.
1:43.0	Eileen good morning to you and congratulations.
1:45.0	Good morning Jane, thank you very much.
1:48.0	Just listening to you introducing myself self band to the show.
1:55.0	It's absolutely just incredible, you know, just to hear that a member of the
2:01.1	traveler community or someone from anetic minority group in Ireland is in parliaments, you know?
2:07.0	Well, it's fantastic. Have you got used to being introduced as Senator Flynn yet?
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