Weekend Woman's Hour: Malala Yousafzai; Feminism in 2013; Life after divorce; Elizabeth Jane Howard; Chloe Howl
Malala Yousafzai, Kate Tempest, Elizabeth Jane Howard and Chloe Howl. Plus Laura Bates, Caroline Criado-Perez and Reni Eddo-Lodge discuss feminism in 2013 and their hopes for 2014.
Malala Yousafzai has become a global symbol of peaceful protest in her campaign for girls' education. But she is also a teenager, a 16 year old girl who likes music and is teased by her brothers. She joins Jane to talk about the girl behind the headlines. Women have made their mark in 2013. Laura Bates, Caroline Criado-Perez and Reni Eddo-Lodge discuss the issues that unite and divide feminists, and their hopes for the year ahead. This week's drama, Hester, is based on the novel by Mrs Oliphant. Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster discuss her work.
The poet Kate Tempest performs the Teen's Speech. How to be happy after divorce: extracts from our phone-in programme with some of your experiences. We remember Elizabeth Jane Howard, acclaimed author of The Cazalet Chronicles, who died on 2 January. And there's music from Chloe Howl, the 18-year old pop star and 麻豆社 Sound Of 2014 nominee.
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Malala Yousafzai
In her campaign for girls鈥 education, Malala Yousafzai has become a global symbol of peaceful protest, and was the youngest nominee for this year鈥檚 Nobel Peace Prize. Last year she survived being shot in the head by the Taliban in her home country, Pakistan. She was flown to hospital in Birmingham for successful treatment. But she is also a teenager, a 16 year old girl who likes music and is teased by her brothers. Malala joined Jane to talk about the girl behind the headlines.
Feminism in 2013
From the campaign to get Jane Austen on our bank notes to getting girls off Page 3, feminism has taken centre stage in 2013. So what issues unite and divide feminists? What challenges does the movement face? And what are the hopes for the year ahead? Laura Bates is the founder of the , Caroline Criado-Perez ran the successful campaign to and Reni Eddo-Lodge is a writer听and prominent voice in the discussions calling for a wider representation in feminism.
Hester
This week鈥檚 fifteen minute drama on Radio 4 is , based on the novel by Mrs Oliphant.听 Margaret Oliphant, better known as Mrs Oliphant,听 published nearly one hundred novels and her portrayals of provincial life have been compared to George Eliot and Anthony Trollope. But over the years Mrs Oliphant has been neglected. This new dramatisation by writers Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster brings to life the remarkable women portrayed in her novel听 Hester, first published in 1883. Jenni听talked听to the two dramatists about Mrs Oliphant鈥檚 life and works and the process of distilling a 200,000 word novel into a 12,000 word play.听
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest is an English poet and spoken word artist who started out when she was 16 years old. She has written poetry for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Barnardo's and the 麻豆社. Working with Amnesty International, Kate created a schools pack helping secondary school children write their own protest songs, and was invited to write and perform a new poem for Aung San Suu Kyi when she received the Ambassador of Conscience award in Dublin. In 2013 she won the Ted Hughes Award for her work Brand New Ancients. In the spirit of today鈥檚 teenage themed programme, we broadcast her poem 鈥楾he Teens鈥 Speech鈥 originally created for Barnardo鈥檚 in 2009.
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Life After Separation or Divorce Phone-in
On Thursday Jenni Murray presented a phone-in discussing how to be happy after divorce or separation. Listeners shared their experiences of successful and painful separation, whether on good terms with a former-partner or not. January is a month which sees more couples decide to break up than any other - how can you minimise the hurt and damage to children and other family members, and negotiate shared friendship groups and social life?
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Archive: Elizabeth Jane Howard
As a tribute to Elizabeth Jane Howard, who died on Thursday, we hear a 2008 Woman鈥檚 Hour archive interview with the acclaimed author. In 1950, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, the Beautiful Visit. Her most celebrated work, the Cazz-a-let Chronicles were adapted for television. Her thirteenth novel, Love All, has just been published 鈥 her first novel for nine years.
Chloe Howl
听is an 18-year old pop star who sings about the stuff teenagers REALLY do. She describes her music as pop 鈥 but more 鈥渟teak and kidney,鈥 than bubble-gum. Chloe is on the long-list for the 麻豆社 Sound Of 2014. So is she the next big thing? She joined Jenni to perform and tell us about her new single.听听
Chl枚e Howl's new single Paper Heart is on Columbia Records.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Jane Garvey |
Interviewed Guest | Malala Yousafzai |
Interviewed Guest | Laura Bates |
Interviewed Guest | Caroline Criado-Perez |
Interviewed Guest | Reni Eddo-Lodge |
Interviewed Guest | Kate Clanchy |
Interviewed Guest | Zena Forster |
Performer | Kae Tempest |
Performer | Chloe Howl |
Producer | Louise Corley |
Broadcast
- Sat 4 Jan 2014 16:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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