Trading Hair
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Justine Lang embarks on a journey to find out why women in India sacrifice their natural hair and why an increasing number of South African women want to buy it.
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| 0:18.0 | Freya, what are we going to do today? Bunchers. |
| 0:20.0 | With plats or just hanging out loose? |
| 0:22.0 | Just hanging up. |
| 0:23.0 | What does your hair look like? |
| 0:26.0 | If you had to describe it to somebody, how would you describe it? |
| 0:30.0 | Brown, big curly. |
| 0:36.0 | the long curve. |
| 0:37.2 | Yeah, back to my shoulders. |
| 0:40.5 | And I get my afro from my dad because he used to have one. |
| 0:47.0 | What does he have now? |
| 0:50.0 | He's bold. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, one bunch going in. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Justin Lang and that nine-year-old girl is the youngest of my two daughters. |
| 1:01.0 | At the moment, our world revolves around hair. |
| 1:04.3 | Sometimes I like my hair, sometimes not that much. |
| 1:09.7 | It's irritating on school mornings when we're in a rush and we have to get it ready. |
| 1:16.0 | But sometimes it's nice because you can do it in lots of different ways. |
| 1:22.0 | So if you could choose any hair, what type of hair would you have? Straight hair. |
| 1:27.0 | Why? |
| 1:28.0 | Because I like it and it's easier. |
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