Rwanda genocide, Bowie's hairdresser, womanhood during Ramadan
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide on Sunday, April 7th, BBC journalist Victoria Uwonkunda returns to the counry for the first time after fleeing the genocide as a child in 1994, to find out how the country, and its people, are healing.
Lots of our favourite pop - or rock - stars have had iconic looks to go along with their music. Suzi Ronson is the woman behind a hairstyle many of us will recognise - the red spiky hair of Ziggy Stardust, a character and onstage persona created by David Bowie. Her new memoir, Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars, talks about her time with the band during the 70s and meeting her late husband, guitarist Mick Ronson.
It’s almost the end of Ramadan 2024 – the month of fasting observed by Muslims all over the world. But what’s it like to be a modern woman, potentially on your period, and still going through Ramadan? Anita speaks with Mehreen Baig from the podcast Not Even Water and Hodo Ibrahim, co-host of The Oversharers podcast, on the challenges and advantages of being a Muslim woman in Ramadan.
You'll likely see the price of getting your nails done go up as of Monday, on what's being called the National Nail Tech Price Increase Day. While you might be paying around £40 to get your nails done, your nail technician would only take home around £7 an hour, once you take away the costs of things like tools and products. Amy Guy is the founder of Nail Tech Org and Rochelle Anthony owns her own salon, and they talk about what the price rise means to them.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Cecelia Armstrong
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Today, hair, iconic hairstyles. |
| 0:44.0 | Your own standout haircut, the barnet you'll never forget, |
| 0:47.5 | or indeed you wish you could forget. |
| 0:49.6 | How do you feel about your hair now? |
| 0:51.6 | What a haircut or no haircut means to you? The reason I ask |
| 0:55.6 | is because I'm going to be joined by Susie Ronson who as a young hairdresser in |
| 1:00.1 | Beckenham in the I mean this haircut was a game changer for him but also led to |
| 1:15.2 | Susie getting a job with the band and her life changing overnight pretty much but I |
| 1:20.3 | don't need to give you the details because she will be here to tell her story herself. |
| 1:24.4 | I would, however, like to know about the style, the haircut that defined or defines you. |
| 1:30.8 | I've spoken a lot on my own social media about my own hair journey. As a young |
| 1:34.4 | last I had very long hair down to my bottom but I always loved short hair but I was |
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