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Woman's Hour: Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox

Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox

Anita Rani talks to legendary singer-songwriter Annie Lennox.

The multi-award-winning singer has been using her voice for activism for the last 15 years. She tells Anita about her charity, The Circle, her belief in Global Feminism.

Anita and Annie are joined by Kalpona Akter, an ambassador for The Circle who worked in a garment factory when she was just 12 years old. 

The government’s first Menopause Employment Champion Helen Tomlinson joins the programme to discuss how she will advise employers on improving workplace support for women experiencing menopause symptoms. 

And we hear about a revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 drama of passion, delusion and mental illness – A Streetcar Named Desire.   Following a run at the Almeida Theatre in January it has transferred to the West End and opens at the Phoenix Theatre in London on Monday. The play dramatizes the experiences of Blanche DuBois, a former Southern belle who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her once-prosperous situation to move into a shabby apartment in New Orleans rented by her younger sister Stella and brother-in-law, Stanley.  Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan, who play Blanche and Stella respectively, join Anita Rani to discuss their characters and the sisters’ relationship.


Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Tim Heffer

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