Weekend Womanβs Hour: Ukraine Kakhovka Dam, Candi Staton & Christina Rossetti the Carer
Ukraine Kakhovka Dam, music and chat from Grammy award nominated Candi Staton and poetry workshops for people with caring responsibilities.
Facebook has removed an advert for a sanitary towel product because it referenced the words Vagina, Vulva and Clitoris. It's the latest in a long line of period ads that have caused a stir. So what is and isn't appropriate when it comes to period adverts? Chella Quint, the founder of Period Positive, a menstruation education advisor and author and Alice Enders, Director of Research at Enders Analysis discuss.
The rescue efforts are continuing in Ukraine after Tuesday's breach of the Kakhovka dam. Thirty communities along the Dnipro river have been flooded according to officials. Now the Red Cross has raised concerns that land-mines have been dislodged in the flooding. Kate Zhuzha is from Nova Kakhovka where the dam has collapsed and is the Founder of NGO Union of Help to Kherson in touch with people in the flooded areas. She tells us about the latest reports.
Last month we looked at the experience of caring with authors Emily Kenway and Lynne Tillman. So many of you got in touch including academic Dinah Roe, a Reader in nineteenth-century literature, who with poet Sarah Hesketh, managing editor of Modern Poetry In Translation have been running a series of free online workshops, inspired by Christina Rossetti's writing, designed specifically for people with caring responsibilities. Dinah and Sarah discuss the power of writing poetry.
Four-time Grammy award nominated singer Candi Staton has moved between several musical genres during of the course of her celebrated career β from soul, R&B, gospel and disco. She discusses her iconic tracks such as the multi-platinum βYou Got the Loveβ and the singalong anthem βYoung Hearts Run Freeβ. It has recently been remixed by UK producer Benji La Vida and has had more than 2.4 million streams on Spotify alone, and there are 60,000 TikTok reels of people doing a dance challenge to the song
No single person can take credit for the huge boom in womenβs football but if anyone can itβs the woman who placed second on the Womanβs Hour Power List, Baroness Sue Campbell. The Director of Womenβs Football at the FA tells us about the Lionesses legacy, the upcoming World Cup and the future of the Womenβs Super League.
Since his diagnosis in 2019, rugby league star Rob Burrow has been battling Motor Neurone Disease, with wife Lindsey by his side. Lindsay tells us about her first marathon and has raised over Β£100,000 towards a specialist Motor Neurone Disease Centre to be built in his name. A new ITV documentary, Lindsey and Rob: Living with MND, follows Lindsey as she navigates marathon training alongside working and family life, whilst also exploring the wider impact of this disease.
Presenter: Krupa Padhy
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
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