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With the Desert Island Disco

Today's castaway is Elena Favilli, author of Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls. With Elena in charge of the tunes, we enjoy some Queen Bee, Celia Cruz and Miriam Makeba.

Today's castaway is Elena Favilli, one of the authors behind Good Night Stories For Rebel Girls. Tired of stories with male heroes, Elena and Francesca Cavallo, decided to write a book with women centre stage, in order to inspire girls around the world to dream bigger, aim higher and fight harder.

The first volume was hugely successful (it has sold has sold more than 1.6mn copies and been translated into 42 languages) and volume 2 is out now, shining a spotlight on µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©, J.K. Rowling, Rosalind Franklin, Nefertiti and more.

With Elena in charge of the tunes, we enjoy some Queen Bee, Adele, Celia Cruz and Miriam Makeba.

Chris Hewitt also returns for Friday Film Club, and he reviews You Were Never Really Here, as directed by last week's guest Lynne Ramsay.

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Music Played

  • Sly & the Family Stone

    I Want To Take You Higher

    • Epic.

  • Gwenno

    Tir Ha Mor

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Tracey Thorn

    Dancefloor

  • Bush Tetras

    Can't Be Funky

    • Fetish Records.

  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

    Mainland

    • Sub Pop.

  • Gloria

    Heavy

  • P.P. Arnold

    You Can't Always Get What You Want

    • The Turning Tide.
    • Kundalini Music.
    • 13.

  • SOAK

    B a noBody

  • Crystal Castles

    Celestica

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Courtney Barnett

    Nameless, Faceless

    • Marathon Artists.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Zero

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Miriam Makeba

    Pata Pata

    • Ulli Wengers One Hit Wonder Volume 4 CD1.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 4.

  • Celia Cruz And Johnny Pacheco

    Quimbara

    • Our Latin Thing.
    • EMI Records Limited.
    • 12.

  • µþ±ð²â´Ç²Ô³¦Ã©

    Run The World (Girls)

    • Run The World (Girls).
    • 1.

  • Adele

    Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)

    • High Contrast The Essential Tracks And Remixes 2001-2009 CD2.
    • 1.

  • Sébastien Tellier

    La Ritournelle

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Lucky Numbers.

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    It's A Beautiful World

    • SOUR MASH RECORDS.

  • Straylings

    Call Me Rosa

  • Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

    Middle America

    • DOMINO RECORDING CO LTD.

  • Four Tops

    Bernadette

    • Motown.

  • Young Fathers

    In My View

    • Ninja Tune.

  • A.A.L (Against All Logic)

    This Old House Is All I Have

  • Cut Copy

    Saturdays

  • serpentwithfeet

    Bless Ur Heart

    • tri angle records.

  • Gengahr

    Before Sunrise

    • Transgressive Records.

  • M83

    Midnight City

    • Naive.

  • Unknown Mortal Orchestra

    American Guilt

    • Jagjaguawar.

  • Little Simz

    The Lights

  • SLUG

    No Heavy Petting

    • Memphis Industries.

  • Amerie

    1 Thing (Radio Edit)

    • 1 Thing.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Moby

    Bodyrock

  • David Byrne

    Every Day Is A Miracle

  • Neneh Cherry

    Buffalo Stance

    • Now 1988 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Sheila & B. Devotion

    Spacer

    • Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.

  • Baloji

    Soleil De Volt

    • Bella Union.

  • Sister Sledge

    Thinking Of You

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.

  • The Rift Valley Brothers

    Mu Africa

  • Whyte Horses

    Empty Words

    • CRC Records.

  • Françoise Hardy

    Le Temps De L'amour

    • Les Chansons D'Amour.
    • 7.

  • Nina Simone

    Fine and Mellow

  • Dusty Springfield

    Son Of A Preacher Man

    • Philips.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Mar 2018 10:00
    Â鶹Éç Radio 6 Music