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Woman's Hour: Caitlin Moran, Ellie Simmonds, Esperanza Spalding, Brandi Morin

Caitlin Moran, Ellie Simmonds, Esperanza Spalding, Brandi Morin

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Caitlin Moran, Ellie Simmonds, Esperanza Spalding, Brandi Morin

What About Men? Caitlin Moran takes on the modern man in a book.

Caitlin Moran takes on modern men, Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds, Canadian journalist Brandi Morin on murdered Indigenous women, and jazz composer Esperanza Spalding.

Anita is joined by the five time Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds to discuss her new documentary where she sets out to find her birth parents. Ellie was adopted within months of being born and whilst she has always known she was adopted, she hasn't previously tried to find her birth parents, until now.

Five times Grammy award winner, the bassist, lyricist and composer, Esperanza Spalding has become a prominent voice in the jazz world. At 38 she has released eight albums and has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Terri Lyne Carrington and Toni Visconti. She talks to Anita from the Netherlands, where she will perform at the North Sea Jazz Festival. 

Canada has a history of disproportionate violence faced by indigenous women, which was called a genocide by a national public inquiry in 2019. The Native Women’s Association of Canada has counted the names of more than 4,000 Indigenous women they believe have been murdered over the last three decades. Brandi Morin is an award-winning journalist who is Cree, Iroquois, French Canadian and puts the abuses suffered by indigenous Canadians front and centre in her work. She joins Anita to explain why.

Caitlin Moran’s multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published in 28 countries. Now she has turned her attention to men, what's wrong with them, what they should do about it and why they need feminism to help. Caitlin joins Anita to discuss her new book What About Men?


Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Rebecca Myatt
Studio manager: Gayl Gordon

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