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Woman's Hour: Sona Jobarteh, Women in Islamic State, Rose Bretecher and OCD

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Kora virtuoso Sona Jobarteh, Women in Islamic State, OCD

04/09/2015

Sona Jobarteh, Women in Islamic State, Rose Bretecher and OCD

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Sona Jobarteh, Women in Islamic State, Rose Bretecher and OCD

Presented by Jenni Murray. Kora virtuso Sona Jobarteh performs in the studio.

Kora virtuso Sona Jobarteh performs in the studio, plus discussion on the increasing role of women in Islamic State, crime writer PD James, and pure obsessive compulsive disorder.

Sona Jobarteh is the first female virtuoso on the kora - the West African harp. She talks about her role as a woman in this traditionally male musical tradition and she performs live in the studio. 

The number of Britons travelling to Syria to live under 'Islamic State' peaked two years ago, but the proportion of women among those still joining the extremist group has risen dramatically. The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner and Dr Katherine Brown, an expert in Islamic Studies at King's College London discuss how women are essential to the IS political strategy. 

Rose Bretécher's memoir 'Pure' reveals her struggle with a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in which she experiences intrusive and unthinkable thoughts - often sexual or violent in content. Rose explains what it is like living with the disorder. 

The historian Katherine Connelly takes us on the next stage of her tour exploring women's history in the East End of London. And our Queens of Crime series - crime writers Lin Anderson and Simon Brett discuss the work of PD James.

Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Dianne McGregor.

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