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Activist Professor Angela Davis

Activist and member of the Black Panthers Prof Angela Davis talks about the journey from being on the FBI's 10 most wanted list to being in the 100 'cool' Americans exhibition.

Professor Angela Davis was known as a radical activist and member of the Black Panthers in the 1960s-1970s. 40 years on she talks to Jenni Murray about the journey from a place on the FBI's ten most wanted list to a place in the 100 'cool' Americans exhibition earlier this year in Washington's National Portrait Gallery.

Former Vogue editor and founder of the charity OAfrica Lisa Lovatt-Smith talks about her new book Who Knows Tomorrow and her work in Ghana which has been inspired by her own upbringing.

Mosac are an organisation which tries to offer support to the non-abusing parents of children who've been sexually abused. Following Jane's interview with Luci Coffey, an advocacy manager from Mosac, we hear from a woman the programme calls Jackie who has two daughters, both of whom were abused by their father. Her testimony is spoken by an actor.

And the Scottish-Zambian singer songwriter Namvula performs live and talks to Jane about her new album, Shiwezwa, and the women who inspired it.

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Wed 3 Dec 2014 10:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 FM

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Chapters

  • Professor Angela Davis

    Duration: 14:12

  • Namvula

    Duration: 07:27

  • The sexual abuse of children by their father

    Duration: 08:10

  • Lisa Lovatt-Smith

    Duration: 07:02

Professor Angela Davis

Professor Angela Davis was known as a radical activist and member of the Black Panthers in the 1960s-1970s. Still a celebrated civil rights activist and respected academic she speaks frankly about the actions that branded her a terrorist and simultaneously spurred a worldwide political movement for her freedom. Forty years on she's moved from having a place on the FBI’s ten most wanted list to having a place on the 100 ‘cool’ Americans exhibition displayed earlier this year in Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. Angela Davis talks to Jenni on Woman’s Hour about that journey.

Namvula

The Scottish/Zambian singer songwriter joins Jane to talk about her new album, Shiwezwa, and the women who inspired it. She’ll also perform live in the studio. 

The sexual abuse of children by their father

are an organisation which tries to offer support to the non-abusing parents of children who’ve been sexually abused. Following Jane’s interview yesterday with Luci Coffey, an advocacy manager from Mosac, Jane speaks to Jackie, not her real name, who has two daughters, both who were abused by their father. Her testimony is spoken by an actor.

Lisa Lovatt-Smith

The founder of the charity, , Lisa Lovatt-Smith talks about her new book ‘Who Knows Tomorrow’ and her dramatic life story. Lisa, a former Vogue editor, works with the Government in Ghana to re-unite children abandoned by their families in orphanages. She’s received death threats and last year her house was burned down. Lisa was inspired to help children she met in Ghana as she herself had been informally fostered by a family when she was young, and she 

knows how economic support can make all the difference to a child’s future. 

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Presenter Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest Namvula
Interviewed Guest Angela Davis
Interviewed Guest Lisa Lovatt-Smith
Producer Beverley Purcell

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  • Wed 3 Dec 2014 10:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 FM

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