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Bring Back Our Girls Update, Daughterhood, SNP Women Candidates

Oby Ezekwesili discusses the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, controlling fathers in Shakespeare's work, SNP women candidates say why they are standing, and how to be a good daughter.

Do you wish you were a better daughter? Irish journalists and daughters Natasha Fennell and Roisin Ingle discuss how to improve your relationship with your mother before it's too late; we also explore dutiful daughters in Shakespeare and their controlling fathers; Nigerian activist Oby Ezekwesili with an update on the #BringBackOurGirls campaign she started to rescue the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram last year; and in the last of our series focusing on women candidates for the general election, it's the turn of the SNP.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Sarah Crawley.

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41 minutes

Chapters

  • The Daughterhood

    Duration: 07:00

  • Shakespeare's Compliant Daughters

    Duration: 10:37

  • Bring Back Our Girls

    Duration: 06:54

  • SNP Candidates

    Duration: 10:39

The Daughterhood

Do you, as a daughter, have a good, bad or guilty relationship with your mother? Do you sometimes wonder how other women manage to navigate this complex, sometimes frustrating and joyous relationship… and want to improve your own? Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle and confidence expert Natasha Fennell got together to form “The Daughterhood,” a group of women who met monthly to discuss how they got on with their mothers and to work out a strategy for improving or at least accepting their individual circumstances. They join Jenni to discuss what they found. 

Shakespeare's Compliant Daughters

Another in our series exploring parenting in Shakespeare’s plays. Shakespeare is especially exercised by the father daughter relationship, which he often depicts as problematical.  We look at two plays which feature compliant daughters and controlling fathers. Judi Herman talks to the actors playing these roles in current productions of Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing; and to Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama and English at Greenwich University.  Hamlet is currently at the New Theatre, Cardiff in a production by Theatr Clwyd;  Much Ado About Nothing, or Love’s Labours Won, as it’s also called, is at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford.

Theatre Clwyd’s Hamlet is at the New Theatre Cardiff to 14 March.

Much Ado about Nothing, or Love’s Labours Won is at the to 14 March, with encore screenings in

Bring Back Our Girls

Bring Back Our Girls

The extraordinary activist, Oby Ezekwesili, who started the campaign to rescue more than 200 Chibok girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014, arrived in London from Nigeria on Saturday 7th March to speak at the WOW Festival at London’s Southbank Centre. Oby joined Jane in the Woman’s Hour glass box at WOW to highlight that the abducted girls are still missing and the world must not move on until they are home. Oby also explains why she refuses to give up and why she believes all girls have the right to an education.

SNP Candidates

Over the last few months we’ve been looking at the efforts of the political parties in Great Britain to get more women to stand - and for the final installment in the series we turn to the Scottish National Party. At the moment they have six MPs – one of whom is a woman and currently 21 of the 59 candidates who’ve been selected are women. So, might we see the party sending more women to Westminster? Today we hear women candidates from the SNP talk about what their party has been doing to help get them, and others, elected to Westminster  

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Sarah Crawley
Interviewed Guest Natasha Fennell
Interviewed Guest Roisin Ingle
Interviewed Guest Oby Ezekwesili
Interviewed Guest Pippa Guard
Interviewed Guest David Horovitch
Interviewed Guest Flora Spencer-Longhurst
Interviewed Guest Caryl Morgan
Interviewed Guest Delves-Broughton
Interviewed Guest Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
Interviewed Guest Natalie McGarry
Interviewed Guest Deidre Brock

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Mar 2015 10:00

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