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Woman's Hour: Janelle Monae; Zara Aleena's aunt - Farah Naz; Marathon runner Christine Hobson, folk singers Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones

23/12/2022

Janelle Monae; Zara Aleena's aunt - Farah Naz; Marathon runner Christine Hobson, folk singers Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Janelle Monae; Zara Aleena's aunt - Farah Naz; Marathon runner Christine Hobson, folk singers Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones

69 year old Christine Hobson, the oldest woman to complete the Antarctic Ice Marathon.

Photo credit: John Wilson/Netflix
Grammy nominated singer & actor Janelle Monae; traditional Yorkshire Christmas song from folk singers Bryony Griffith & Alice Jones.

Photo credit: John Wilson/Netflix
 
The Grammy nominated singer and actor Janelle Monae joins Krupa to discuss playing the role of Andi Brand in Netflix's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. They also discuss politics, including Janelle's thoughts on the rights of marginalised groups in the US as well as fashion and Janelle's love of dressing in the nude on holiday.

In the early hours of June 26 this year aspiring lawyer Zara Aleena, 35, was sexually assaulted before she was killed by a man who had been released from prison less than two weeks before. She was attacked as she walked home from a night out along busy Cranbrook Road in Ilford, east London, an area she knew well and where she felt “safe”. Krupa speaks to Zara’s aunt – Farah Naz – about Zara, losing her and the family’s reaction to the murderer being allowed to stay in his cell rather than come to court to be sentenced last week.

Sixty nine year old Christine Hobson from West Yorkshire has become the oldest woman to complete the Antarctic Ice Marathon. Braving the extreme weather conditions with minus 50C temperatures, she completed the marathon last Wednesday in just eight hours and 33 minutes. She has also now achieved the incredible feat of having run 117 marathons on seven continents. 

 The fiddler and folk singer Bryony Griffith and singer, instrumentalist and percussive step dancer, Alice Jones are established solo artists at the heart of the UK folk scene.  They have joined forces and earlier this year they released an album of Yorkshire songs and folklore: “A year too late and a month too soon” - which went to No.6 in Mojo folk albums of the year.  They join Krupa Padhy live in the studio to discuss the tradition and to perform a Yorkshire Christmas song - Early Pearly, which they've recorded to raise funds for homeless charities.

Presented by Krupa Padhy
Producer: Louise Corley

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