The first all-women-of-colour cast and crew production of Richard II

Woman's Hour

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🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A production of Richard II has just opened at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London. All the cast and crew are women of colour. It's co-directed by Adjoa Andoh, who also takes on the role of Richard II. She discusses the significance of this version of the play, a story of a troubled King beset by problems at home and abroad. The psychologist and author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen talks about her latest novel, Liar, and explores, through the character of Nofar, an average teenage girl working in an ice cream parlor during the summer holidays, the consequences of not telling the truth. Dr Holly Birkett, Lecturer at Birmingham Business Schoo, on the University's Equal Parenting Project. It's some of the most extensive research yet into the take up of Shared Parental Leave, and looks at why more eligible parents don’t use it. Today and tomorrow, Women of the World Festival London takes place at Southbank Centre. What does the future hold for women in Leadership? We hear from Jude Kelly, the founder and director of WOW, and former politician Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia and the only female to have held the post, who is now Chair of the Global Institute of Women’s Leadership at King’s College in London. Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell Photographer; Ingrid Pollard. Guest; Adjoa Andoh Guest; Lynette Linton Guest; Dr Holly Birkett Guest; Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Guest; Jude Kelly Guest; Julia Gillard

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:05.0	Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to Friday's edition of the Urban's Up Podcast, only around
0:11.9	3% of eligible parents are taking advantage of shared parental leave, research by the University
0:18.9	of Birmingham's Equal Parent Project, as why more mothers and fathers don't use it.
0:25.6	At the atrical first, a production of Shakespeare's Richard II has opened at the Sam Warner
0:30.5	Maker playhouse at the Globe in London, and the cast and crew are made up entirely of women
0:36.9	of colour.
0:38.1	Adria Ando directs and plays the king, and Lyre, a novel by the Israeli author Ayelet Gundagoshan,
0:46.5	what fascinated her about the impact of telling a lie?
0:51.6	Now it's International Women's Day, and time for the annual Wow Festival, Women of the
0:57.2	World, to open in London, where it began eight years ago.
1:01.8	It's now extended its reach to 17 countries on five continents, and has included more
1:07.6	than two million people at more than 60 festivals.
1:11.6	And the theme for this year's two-day event at the South Bank is where are we now, and
1:16.9	where are we going, in our moves towards equality between men and women?
1:22.8	Leadership is one of the subjects up for discussion, and with me is Jude Kelly, who led the South
1:28.6	Bank Centre for 12 years, and is the founder and director of Wow, were joined by Australia's
1:34.4	former Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
1:36.6	She's now Chair of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King's College in
1:41.3	London. She's also remembered for making that speech in 2012, addressing the leader of
1:47.9	the Opposition, Tony Abbott.
2:11.3	The leader of the Opposition says that people who hold sexist views and who are misogynists
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