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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Beverley Knight, Melanie Sykes, Cinderella

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

‘The Drifters Girl’ is a musical which tells the story of Faye Treadwell, one of the first Black women to manage a vocal group in the US. Singer and actor Beverley Knight plays Faye.

We discuss the ongoing appeal of the Cinderella story with Faye Campbell who is playing Cinderella at York Theatre Royal and Dr Nicola Darwood who recently co-edited a new book with Alexis Weedon called Re-telling Cinderella: Cultural and Creative Transformations.

On Tuesday Sikh Women’s Aid launched a report into domestic abuse and child sexual abuse within the Sikh community. Conducted via anonymous surveys sent out over the summer, the survey of nearly 700 respondents showed that 70% had experienced domestic violence and 35% had experienced child sexual abuse or exploitation. To tell us more about this report and what can be done to help the issue, we're joined by the co-founder of Sikh Women's Aid and co-author of the report, Sahdaish Pall.

We used to have YOLO, then FOMO, now we have HOGO. Post lockdown, the fear of missing out no longer plagues us. We have become too comfortable sitting on our sofas watching TV. The effort of putting good clothes on and leaving the house is too much. This hassle of going out (HOGO) has been blamed by the hospitality industry for an increase in the number of no-shows at restaurants and paid-for live events. We talk to psychotherapist and author of Happy Relationships: At Home, Work and Play, Lucy Beresford and actor Sadie Clark whose play, Algorithms, is on at Soho Theatre in December.

TV and radio presenter Melanie Sykes has just announced that she’s been diagnosed with autism at the age of 51. She says it's 'truly life changing, or rather life affirming… and so many things make sense’. She tells us more.

Presenter Zara McDermott’s new BBC documentary explores sexual harassment, teenagers, and what impact school is having. We speak to Zara and two contributors who feature in the documentary - activist Zan Moon and 14 year old Trinity.

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

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telly we share what we've been watching

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Fladiated.

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Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

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Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

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BBC Sounds.

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BBC Sounds Music music radio podcasts.

0:34.4

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:39.7

It's cold, it's dark, it's Saturday. What other excuse do you need to catch up with some of the best bits

0:46.4

from across the week? Now pour yourself a glass of what you fancy and settle in.

0:51.4

Coming up, an interview with TV presenter Melanie Sykes on how it feels to receive an autism

0:56.9

diagnosis age 51.

0:59.4

And Cinderella, it's a story we all know, but why does this fairy tale classic continue to be so successful

1:06.0

and is it possible for a story like Cinderella to be feminist? I'll be talking to Cinders to find out.

1:12.0

But first, The Drifters Girl is currently on stage at the

1:16.0

Garrick Theatre in London. Like so many productions it was delayed from last year due to the

1:20.5

pandemic and it tells the story of Fay Treadwell, one of the first black

1:25.4

women to manage a vocal group in the United States. With the death of her husband

1:29.8

in 1967, Fay decided to continue managing the drifters on her own.

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