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Tom Sutcliffe

Julie Bindel

Helen Castor

Joyce DiDonato

Erica Whyman

Katy Hickman

Start the Week: Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly

23/06/2014

Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly

Tom Sutcliffe talks with Julie Bindel, Helen Castor, Joyce DiDonato and Erica Whyman.

Programme that sets the cultural agenda for the week. Tom Sutcliffe discusses women behaving badly with Julie Bindel, Helen Castor, Joyce DiDonato and Erica Whyman.

Tom Sutcliffe talks to the director Erica Whyman about a series of plays by the RSC which focus on the idea that 'well behaved women rarely make history'. The historian Helen Castor looks back at the Middle Ages to some of the earliest roaring girls, while the soprano Joyce DiDonato brings alive Mary, Queen of Scots, the tragic hero of Donizetti's opera. The political activist Julie Bindel has been behaving badly since she came out as a lesbian in the 1970s. She looks at what it means to be gay in 2014 and whether the genuine gains that have been achieved in the last forty years have castrated a once-radical social movement.
Producer: Katy Hickman.

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