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Woman's Hour

Women in Sudan, Game of Thrones, Nurse Molly Case, Top Girls

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The photo of a young Sudanese woman chanting on top of a car went viral and became an iconic image in the protests against Omar al-Bashir’s rule. What role have women played in the protests? And what is the current status of women in the country? CNN correspondent Nima Elbagir in Khartoum and Associate Fellow, Chatham House and former British ambassador to Sudan Rosalind Marsden discuss. The nurse and spoken word artist Molly Case on her book How to Treat People – A Nurse at Work. How can we live an environmentally friendly life? Dr Tara Shine and Madeleine Murray, who run Change by Degrees, a sustainability consultancy that offers advice to business and communities, and environmental journalist, Lucy Siegle offer for some tips on the ways we can live better, greener lives. Top Girls, the iconic feminist play by Caryl Churchill is currently on stage at the National Theatre in London. Lucy Black, Liv Hill and Katherine Kingsley, three actors from the cast discuss why the play made such an impact when it was first performed in 1982 and why it is still relevant today. It's the final season of Game of Thrones - three fans Danielle Ward, Georgia Humphrey and Ruth Websdale tell us why the series appeals to female viewers. The Shatila Refugee camp in the south of Beirut was originally built in 1949 to house Palestinian refugees. Following the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011 tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon many of them also taking refuge in the Shatila Camp. The publisher and author Meike Ziervogel talks about the work she is doing with 100 Syrian refugee women who have set up The Shatila Studio, a bespoke needlework business that is attracting orders from outside the camp. BLACKPINK made history by becoming the first female K-Pop band to perform at the festival, Coachella. With a world tour set for this year and their single ‘Kill This Love’ climbing the charts in the UK and the US, it looks like they might be poised to break the western pop music market. We discuss the role of women in K-Pop, both as performers and as fans. And what’s behind the ‘girl crush’ concept? K-Pop dance instructor Tammy Jane Mejia, music journalist Biju Belinky and Dr Haekyung Um from the University of Liverpool discuss. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Dianne McGregor

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:04.8

Good afternoon, happy Easter and welcome to Weekend Woman's Hour.

0:08.3

This week, trying to live a more environmentally friendly life, isn't entirely straightforward,

0:14.2

we'll have what we hope is some good advice for you on the programme this afternoon.

0:18.1

And we'll also look at women's role in the fight for change in the Sudan.

0:21.8

They led this demonstration, but they still led, again, this is a really conservative

0:27.2

culture, so I can't understate what it means to be at the demo site at 2 in the morning

0:32.5

and have young unmarried women manning the barricades.

0:36.4

It's really amazing.

0:38.4

Also on the programme today, some enthusiastic fans of Game of Thrones attempt to sell me the

0:44.2

show.

0:45.2

I cosplayed Egrit, Jon Snow's girlfriend, and she's been dead in the show for quite a few

0:50.7

seasons now, so she's less popular.

0:53.3

And now I do Yara Greyjoy instead, because she's still alive, hopefully.

0:58.6

To be fair, you can never be entirely certain how long people are going to last on Game

1:02.0

of Thrones, but that was the view of one of the participants on Women's Hour this week,

1:06.2

who really, as you can tell from that clip, a fully paid up fan of Game of Thrones, which

1:11.2

came back this week to much media for Aure, as I'm sure you're only too well aware.

1:16.2

So more on that in this edition of Weekend Woman's Hour.

1:19.3

But we start with 2013, and the height of the scandal around failures by mid-staffed

1:24.4

her NHS Hospital Trust, and the ensuing Francis report.

1:29.0

A young nurse at the Royal College of Nursing Congress read out a poem that she written.

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