Photographer Doris Derby. Composer Emily Hall. What's behind the success of TikTok?

Woman's Hour

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Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We hear about the impetus to chronicle the civil rights struggle in 1960s Mississippi from photographer Doris Derby

Women will be disproportionally affected by climate change. But they’re also at the forefront of campaigning against it. One of the most famous, Greta Thunberg, was in Bristol last week addressing crowds of young people. But have things changed since her first school strike in 2018? According to a new book, ‘Our House is on Fire – Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis’, they are but not nearly fast enough. What might motivate governments and people to truly act?

Composer Emily Hall will be telling us about the inspiration behind her piece for the Seven Ages of Women a new commission by Radio 3 to mark International Women’s Day on Sunday.

And we look at the huge success of TikTok the free social media app where users create, share and watch videos and ask; Why is it so popular among teenagers?

Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Doris Derby Guest; Emily Hall Guest; Professor Alice Larkin Guest; Dr Alexa Spence Guest; Sarah Manavis Guest; Elizabeth Wosho

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the
0:07.0	Woman's Hour podcast for the 5th of March. Good morning. As Grezia Tumberg accuses the European
0:14.8	Union of acting too slowly on climate change, how accurate is her assertion that when your
0:20.8	house is on fire, you don't wait a few more years to start putting it out. On Sunday, Radio
0:27.7	3 will mark International Women's Day with seven ages of woman. Emily Hall is one of the
0:33.8	seven composers who've collaborated on the choral work. And the photographs of Doris Darby,
0:39.9	whose pictures of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement in the 1960s are being shown at the
0:45.6	Turner Gallery in Margate. Now, there's a relatively new kid on the social media block and it's
0:52.7	known as TikTok. It's quickly become a huge success, particularly among teenagers. It's been
0:59.7	recommended as a good fun app where you can post videos you've made yourself and it's said to
1:05.4	be suitable for young people from the age of 13. There have been some concerns about safety.
1:11.8	One of the challenge videos is called Skullbreaker, where apparently three people stand alongside
1:17.7	each other and the two on the outside try to kick the middle person's legs from under him
1:22.5	or her. There have also been some worries about online predators getting access to young people
1:28.5	through the app. Well, TikTok have recently introduced a family safe mode, so how does a parent
1:35.0	keep control of what a child is posting or watching? Elizabeth Wasso is 16 and posts content on the
1:42.9	site. Sarah Menavius writes about digital culture and technology for the new statesmen, so
1:49.6	how exactly does TikTok work? Well, essentially TikTok is just a video posting app, so you can make
1:56.2	a video that's from 15 seconds to 60 seconds, post it and essentially it's just an endless stream of
2:03.0	dances, lip sinks, memes, pretty much anything you want to do sketches that is an endless stream,
2:09.7	millions of videos that you can constantly flick through all in and up. What sorts of things
2:16.0	Elizabeth, do you post on there? On TikTok, I post relatable content as well as tutorials,
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