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Woman's Hour

Textile designer Althea McNish, Albanian female asylum seekers, endurance athlete Jenny Tough

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Following, Elon Musk’s announcement that Twitter will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another, Nuala McGovern is joined by crime writer, Denise Mina who changed her twitter display name to ‘Elon Musk’. Jenny Tough is an endurance athlete who's best known for running and cycling in some of world's most challenging events. For a forthcoming film - SOLO - she set herself an audacious objective: to run – solo and unsupported, across mountain ranges on six continents, starting with one of the most remote locations on earth in Kyrgystan. She joins Nuala to describe how mountains give her a sense of home and why travelling solo is a “force for joy”. We speak to Anti Trafficking Social worker Lauren Starkey and Human rights Journalist about new research that suggests Albanian women are more likely to have their asylum applications approveddue to the threat they face from trafficking. They’ll be sharing the experiences of some of the women with Nuala McGovern and give us an insight into the dangers that female asylum seekers face day to day. Textile designer Althea McNish was the first Caribbean designer to achieve international recognition and is one of the UK’s most influential and innovative textile designers. There’s currently a major retrospective of her, Althea McNish: Colour is Mine at the Whitworth in Manchester on tour from William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. Rose Sinclair a Lecturer in Design Education at Goldsmiths, University of London co-curated the exhibition. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, this is Nulam Agoveren and you're listening to the Woman's Hour podcast.

0:04.4

Hello and welcome to Woman's Hour.

0:07.0

I am indeed Nulam Agoveren and very happy to be here with you today.

0:11.3

I was followed last night on Twitter by Elon Musk.

0:15.9

Or so I thought for a second or two.

0:18.7

It was instead Denise Mina who had changed her name on Twitter to Elon's.

0:24.3

Who you will have seen, no doubt.

0:26.4

He's the new owner of that social media platform.

0:29.6

But did you also see that Elon Musk said Twitter accounts engaging in impersonation

0:35.9

without clearly specifying they are a parody will be permanently suspended.

0:41.6

Well, Denise's account is still there and we're going to talk to her about why she and others

0:46.8

are changing their names on Twitter to Elon Musk.

0:50.8

It can already be hard enough to know who is who online, right?

0:54.6

But we're going to get into that.

0:55.6

We're also going to get into the blue ticks.

0:58.0

That verification symbol that will now cost $8 or £7 if you want to do the exchange rate.

1:04.8

A month would you pay it?

1:07.6

And there's another name that caught my eye.

1:10.4

And that is of a guest that I'm really looking forward to meeting.

1:14.4

Her name is Jenny Tuff.

1:17.2

It is so apt that name because Jenny has become the first person to run across mountain ranges

1:22.8

of six continents solo, so that means completely unsupported by a team.

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