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Woman's Hour: The Staves live, Nicole Hockley, Manisha Tailor, Women and body art

14/10/2022

The Staves live, Nicole Hockley, Manisha Tailor, Women and body art

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The Staves live, Nicole Hockley, Manisha Tailor, Women and body art

Indie folk trio The Staves play live in the Woman's Hour studio.

Celebrating National Album Day: The Staves have just re-issued a special edition on recycled vinyl of their debut album Dead, Born and Grown, first released ten years ago.

This week, in a defamation trial in the US, Alex Jones, founder of the Infowars website, was ordered to pay nearly one billion dollars in damage to eight families and an FBI agent. He had falsely claimed a mass shooting of twenty young children between ages of 6 and 7 and six adults at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut in 2012 was a hoax.  Because of his lies grieving families were harassed and threatened by his followers. Nicole Hockley’s six year old son Dylan was killed in the shooting and was part of the defamation case and awarded millions in damages. Nicole joins Anita to discuss her response, and her ongoing work as the co-founder of the Sandy Hook Promise, which works to protect children from gun violence. 

Manisha Tailor MBE is the assistant head of coaching for the under 9's to 16's at QPR Football Club. She is the only person of South Asian heritage to be working as a coach in English professional football. She discusses her new book ‘Dream Like Me: South Asian Football Trailblazers’.

National Album Day returns for its 5th year tomorrow and this year turns the spotlight on debut albums. Previous themes include women in music and the 1980s. With activity across BBC Sounds, Anita hears from indie folk trio The Staves. The three sisters from Hertfordshire released their debut album ‘Dead, Born and Grown’ exactly ten years ago and have just re-issued a special edition on recycled vinyl. Jessica, Emily and Camilla perform live in the Woman's Hour studio..

Would you wear a necklace made from your own bacteria? Or a pair of earrings formed from human tears? Anita Rani talks to two women who are using bodily materials – often their own – to make art. Chloe Fitzpatrick grows human bacteria to create the dyes used in her jewellery pieces and has amassed millions of views on TikTok for her videos documenting the process. Alice Potts’ innovative work with crystals has allowed her to create beautiful crystal structures out of tears, urine, and sweat.


Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Nicole Hockley
Interviewed Guest: Manisha Tailor
Interviewed Guest: Camilla Staveley-Taylor
Interviewed Guest: Emily Staveley-Taylor
Interviewed Guest: Jessica Staveley-Taylor
Photographer: Sequoia Ziff
Interviewed Guest: Chloe Fitzpatrick
Interviewed Guest: Alice Potts

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