Skin from Skunk Anansie

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Skunk Anansie have brought out a new album 25LIVE@25 - a compilation of live recordings from the last 25 years. It was released on Jan 25th. The band ‘turn’ 25 this year. Skin talks to Jenni and sings live in the Woman's Hour studio.

Women in Saudi Arabia are tracked and monitored via a large government database and an app called Absher. We look at how difficult and dangerous it makes it for them to flee.

Is this theatre world doing enough to appeal to minority groups like young women and people of colour? Tobi Kyeremateng is the founder of the Black Ticket Project and Babylon Festival at the Bush Theatre - which both target a young, black audience. Tanika Gupta is a theatre writer with over 20 years of experience. Her work is often inspired by her Indian culture.

Chef, cookbook author and broadcaster, Clodagh McKenna’s new book ‘Clodagh’s Suppers’ celebrates seasonal cooking and entertaining at home. She'll Cook the Perfect…Kale, Bean & Winter Roots Soup.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Bill Bostock Interviewed Guest: Rothna Begum Interviewed Guest: Tanika Gupta Interviewed Guest: Tobi Kyeremateng Interviewed Guest: Clodagh McKenna Interviewed Guest: Skin

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0:41.0	Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Friday's edition of the Women's Our
0:45.3	podcast. Now on a day like today what you need for supper is a big bowl of
0:49.5	something to warm you up. Clodie McKenna joins us to cook the perfect kale bean and winter roots soup.
0:57.6	The Black Ticket Project, a plan to encourage people of colour to go to the theatre. And it's 25 years since the formation of the band Skunk and Anse there.
1:07.3	Lead singer, skin, will sing live in celebration. Now it all seems so positive last year when Saudi Arabia's crown prince announced that
1:17.0	women would be allowed to drive cars.
1:20.0	Then we had about activists being taken to prison and reports of them being tortured.
1:25.0	Then there was the young Saudi woman who applied for asylum in Thailand after escaping her family in Saudi Arabia. Now we learn around a thousand women attempt to flee
1:37.2	Saudi Arabia every year but a successful escape is nigh on impossible.
1:46.5	The online newspaper Business Insider has been investigating the way in which technology is being used to enforce the country's guardianship rule, which requires that every woman must have a man who accompanies
1:56.1	her or gives her permission to travel. They've discovered a government app called Absha.
2:02.4	Rothner Begum is the Human Rights Wat
2:05.8	Women's Rights researcher for the Middle Eastern North Africa. Bill Bostock is
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