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21/08/2014

Yazidi women captured by Islamic State fighters, Claudia Jones, perfect picnic food for children, White Crocodile by KT Medina, and girls and hard rock. Presented by Jenni Murray.

Hundreds of Yazidi women have been captured by Islamic State fighters across northern Iraq. Liz Sly, Beirut Bureau Chief for the Washington Post explains what the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) plans for them.

Film maker Nia Reynolds tells the story of Claudia Jones, civil rights activist, who established the first festival of Caribbean culture in 1959, and who fought tirelessly for the rights of black people.

Perfect picnic food for children, by the food writer Bea Wilson.

White Crocodile - How whispers about a mythical beast which brings death to all who meet it and six million landmines still to clear in Cambodia led K.T Medina to write her first novel, set in Battambang.

Girls and Hard Rock.

Presented by: Jenni Murray
Produced by: Rebecca Myatt.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • Yazidi Women

    Liz Sly, Beirut Bureau Chief for the Washington tells Jenni the story .

    Duration: 06:47

  • Notting Hill Carnival

    Notting Hill Carnival takes place this week Nia Reynolds tells the story of Claudia Jones

    Duration: 07:42

  • Perfect Picnics for Children

    Food writer Bea Wilson creates a perfect picnic for children using a variety of recipes.

    Duration: 07:22

  • Girls & Heavy Rock Music

    Daniel P Carter says he’s seen girls going along to hard rock gigs in such great numbers.

    Duration: 11:01

  • White Crocodile

    Debut novelist K.T Medina joins Jenni to talk about her first book β€œWhite Crocodile.”

    Duration: 08:29

Yazidi Women

Hundreds of Yazidi women have now been captured by Islamic State fighters across northern Iraq. Β The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, is an extreme Islamist group, fighting to establish an Islamic caliphate in Syria and the north of Iraq through the expulsion, execution and conversion of non-Muslims. Tens of thousands of Yazidis, members of a minority religious sect, have been displaced by the fighting. Their plight prompted the United States to begin the use of air strikes, to try to protect them. Liz Sly, Beirut Bureau Chief for the Washington Post is in Erbil in Iraq. She has spoken to Yazidi women, and tells Jenni what is happening to those who’ve been captured, and what the Islamic State plans for them.

The Origins of the Notting Hill Carnival

This weekend hundreds of thousands of people will flock to London’s Notting Hill Carnival. Since 1966 this corner of London has dedicated a weekend in August to a massive celebration of Caribbean culture, but the origins of this celebration are even older. Film maker Nia Reynolds tells us the story of Claudia Jones, the civil rights activist who staged the first major celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture in 1959, and who spent her life fighting tirelessly for the rights of black people.

Perfect Picnics for Children

Perfect Picnics for Children

Food writer Bee Wilson creates a perfect picnic for children using a variety of recipes.Μύ In Bee’s picnic basket is cucumber sushi, homemade sausage rolls and flapjacks.

Bee Wilson’s most recent book is .Μύ

White Crocodile

Teenage mothers are disappearing from villages around minefields in Battambang, .Μύ Some are found mutilated and murdered, their babies abandoned. Others simply vanish. The locals whisper that this is the White Crocodile at work - a mythical beast that brings death to all that meet it – but Tess Hardy, an English mine-clearance worker wants to get at the truth. Debut novelist K.T Medina joins Jenni to talk about her first book β€œWhite Crocodile.” Β 

Girls & Heavy Rock Music

Many expect teenage girls to like pop and R&B music, but Radio 1's Head of Music George ErgatoudisΒ recently said he’s seen them increasing enjoying hard rock – often seen as a very male world of music. Radio 1 rock show presenter Daniel P Carter says he’s seen girls and young women going along to hard rock gigs in such great numbers they’ve sometimes outnumbered men. And now his programme’s moving to a primetime evening slot, straight after the Sunday chart show. But despite this, there are still very few female rock musicians. The Reading & Leeds Festival, with its big emphasis on rock, takes place this weekend - when fans will be out in force, when female icon Hayley Williams of Paramore will headline, but when the musicians on stage will be predominantly male. So what’s it like to be a young woman in rock, why is the music so popular with female fans, and how can we get more girls involved in making the music? To discuss, Jenni is joined by Guardian music journalist Caroline Sullivan, by young music fan Paige Bennett, and by Emma Richardson, bassist and vocalist for Band of Skulls.

Band of Skulls are playing at the Reading & Leeds Festival, which starts on Friday, and their latest album, Himalayan, is out now on Electric Blues Recordings

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Rebecca Myatt
Interviewed Guest KT Medina
Interviewed Guest Liz Sly
Interviewed Guest Bee Wilson
Interviewed Guest Nia Reynolds
Interviewed Guest Caroline Sullivan
Interviewed Guest Emma Richardson
Interviewed Guest Paige Bennett

Broadcast

  • Thu 21 Aug 2014 10:00

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