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Woman's Hour

Women DJs in lockdown

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

With nightlife on pause during lockdown how have DJs been adapting? DJ Flight has been at the forefront of drum and bass for over two decades. Signed to Goldie’s label Metalheadz, she’s played all over the world and is founder of EQ50, a project aimed at improving gender equality in drum and bass. Ngaio Anyia is a singer and DJ from Bristol who runs Booty Bass, a collective who offer DJ lessons for women. Jenni talks to them about livestreams and how their work has changed with COVID-19. With clubs closed, is it time to make the industry more gender balanced… and will it actually happen?

Students all over the country are protesting about how their work will be graded for GCSEs and A-Levels after exams were cancelled because of Covid. It’s even worse for home-educated young people. They’ll be getting no grades at all for all their efforts because grades are allocated by schools.

Belarus had elections on Sunday. The man who’s been President for 26 years (since 1994), President Alexander Lukashenko, got in again. A woman called Svetlana Tikhanovskaya challenged him in the election. She’s a stay-at-home mum and she told a crowd recently that she’d much prefer to be frying cutlets than run for President. She’s now left Belarus for safety reasons, saying she doesn’t agree with the election result. During her election campaigning two women have been by her side. One of them is Veronika Tsepkalo who’s also left Belarus. BBC Moscow Correspondent, Sarah Rainsford joins Jenni to discuss.

We’ve been talking to women about their scars and skin, how they feel about them and how the reactions of others has shaped their lives. Today, Aimee who lives with psoriasis.

Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Alison Sauer Interviewed Guest: Jo Merrett Interviewed Guest: Veronika Tsepkalo Interviewed Guest: Sarah Rainsford Reporter: Ena Miller Interviewed Guest: DJ Flight Interviewed Guest: Ngaio Anyia

Transcript

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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

0:11.8

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.

0:21.0

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

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

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BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.

0:34.4

Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to Thursday's Woman's Hour on the 13th of August.

0:40.0

Good morning.

0:41.2

In today's program, as protests against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus continue,

0:47.6

what's been the result of campaigning against him for the candidate who challenged him,

0:52.4

Svetlana Ticanovskaya.

0:55.4

In the next in our series about scars and the way we learn to live with them, Amy, who suffers

1:00.0

severely from psoriasis. And how do you DJ during a lockdown? Might live streaming music

1:08.2

whilst nightlife is on pause give women more opportunities to shine.

1:13.7

Exam grades in Chaos, teachers in despair, appeals set for meltdown.

1:19.0

So read one newspaper headline this morning, on the day young people across the country

1:24.8

anxiously awaited the results of their A levels. Of course the results are not

1:29.4

based on successful failure in exams taken this summer, but on teacher assessments, which have been altered by an off-quil algorithm,

1:38.0

or maybe on the mocks taken earlier this year.

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