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Thread #101863   Message #2059073
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
23-May-07 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Kathryn Tickell on Woman's Hour
Subject: RE: Kathryn Tickell on Woman's Hour
In the past year or so, Woman's Hour has featured the music of, and very perceptive interviews with, The Witches Of Elswick, Winterset, Mariza, Athena Andreadis and Karine Polwart. There are surely others I have missed. And it's not ghettoised but presented as 'these are women succeeding out there at being musicians'. As, indeed, the C5 documentary of Kathryn Tickell's work was, though it was a tad devalued by the inclusion of Sting as token popstar to grab the viewer's attention.

The Woman's Hour interviews are not even faintly patronising and Jenni Murray allows her interviewees to make their points. Vastly different from the supposedly dedicated show on R2 where you might imagine this should be happening, but doesn't.