The Salon

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Everything is up for discussion in the salon, where intimate and frank conversations take place between a woman and her hairstylist. Whether you view a haircut as a luxury or a necessity, a hair salon is at the frontline of how we think about female identity. Six journalists from around the world pay visits to salons across the world, from Tokyo to Johannesburg to Beirut and back. We’ll hear how women view issues of race, class, wealth, sexuality and beauty through the hair on their heads. Step inside the salon, where every haircut tells a story.

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0:00.0	This is a BBC podcast. You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use at BBCWorldservice.com slash podcasts. It was a cochinal who said a family that copse should have
0:17.0	a woman who cut her hair is about to change her life.
0:21.0	A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
0:24.0	You're listening to the sound of heartbreak.
0:29.0	The sound of work.
0:32.0	The sound of work of defiance, the sound of defiance, the sound of something new about to begin.
0:47.0	You're listening to the salon. Today on the BBC World Service as part of our identity season
0:51.0	we will spend the next hour exploring what we tell each other and ourselves when we look in the mirror.
0:57.0	Six journalists from around the world. That's us.
1:00.0	So blah blah blah blah, blah, testing, testing.
1:02.0	Are you recording that? Yeah. Test, one, two, test. So blah blah blah blah blah Testing.
1:02.6	Are you recording that?
1:03.7	Test one two, test test one two.
1:05.4	You want him to show that he's quiring him.
1:07.8	So this is the main interview.
1:10.2	Charlotte Gertrude, Christine, Vica, Marwa, and Kent,
1:14.0	came together to see whether we could find a way to tell the stories we only hear in our private lives.
1:20.0	A woman trusts two people with her head. The first person is a psychologist and the second is the hairstylist.
1:30.0	So we're taking you to a place where many women feel free to have candid private conversations.
1:36.0	I'm not going to name names, but in these clients they'll tell you about how they were
1:40.6	choosing on their own spoons.
1:43.0	And I think this is a place where they feel the headdresser does know much about the private
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