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Woman's Hour

Remembering Mary Quant, Hen parties, Architect Sumayya Vally, WH Power list change-maker Emma Booth

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, best known for popularising the mini skirt which helped define the swinging sixties has died at the age of 93. The Telegraph's fashion writer Melissa Twigg who knew Mary and the fashion Amber Butchart discussed her impact and legacy.

Sumayya Vally has been described as one of the most exciting, innovative and fresh voices in architecture, she's featured on the TimesNext100 list, and was the youngest ever architect to design the iconic Serpentine Pavilion in Hyde Park. Now she is the woman behind the innaugral Islamic Arts Biennal in Saudi Arabia, which aims to bridge past, present and future of Islamic culture through a unique multi-sensorial experience. Sumayya joins Anita to talk about how her upbringing as an Indian muslim in South Africa has shaped her view on the world and the structures she creates.

A new report highlights concerns about infants with non-accidental injuries being missed by clinicians in busy A&E departments. The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has examined serious case reports of infants being harmed and initially sent away without safeguarding teams being alerted. Their findings suggest factors such as lack of curiosity and lack of specific national guidance for Emergency Departments could be at play.

Emma Booth is on the Woman's Hour Power List, this year focussed on women in sport. Emma impressed the judges as she took a public stand against major golf brand TaylorMade and their lack of female imagery and golf products for women. Emma joins Anita to discuss speaking out against such a well-known company and how it is to be a woman in golf.

As we head into peak hen do season, Anita will be discussing the rise of the "healthy hen do" with Hannah Dean who set up her own hen party company as a direct result of her divorce, and writer Ellie Steafal who went on six hen parties last year alone.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:04.4

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:11.0

Hen party season is upon us and today we're going to be discussing the evolution of the

0:15.9

hen party.

0:17.4

Women are increasingly wanting something different to the classic, getting totally trolleyed

0:21.5

in Blackpool.

0:22.5

Not everyone, but some.

0:23.7

Hen parties are now becoming about wholesome activities and adventure apparently, hiking,

0:28.5

yoga, spa days, even poppy parties.

0:31.7

But what's your experience?

0:33.2

Did you have one?

0:34.2

What did you do?

0:35.2

Maybe you don't remember.

0:36.7

And how does your hen party compare to hen parties you've subsequently been invited

0:40.8

to?

0:41.8

They're now more likely to be intergenerational affairs.

0:44.5

So are you a mum, auntie or grand?

0:47.0

Who was at the hen party?

0:48.0

How was it?

0:49.0

Who was the worst behaved?

0:50.0

Here's looking at you, grandma.

0:51.0

Or was it an altogether more sober affair?

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