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Kate McCann
Four years ago Madeleine McCann went missing on a family holiday in Portugal. Her mother, Kate talks on her daughter’s 8th birthday.
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Rumer
Rumer joins Jenni to talk about becoming the singer-songwriter she’s always wanted to be and performs her song ‘Thankful’.
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Femininity and character
How much is a girl’s character formed by the traditional notions we have of “femininity"?
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Dr Rachel Graham
Dr Rachel Graham from Belize is this year’s Whitley Gold award. Rachel is the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Gulf and Caribbean Sharks and Rays Programme.
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Kate McCann
Four years ago Madeleine McCann went missing on a family holiday in Portugal. Her mother, Kate talks on her daughter’s 8th birthday about how she and her family have been affected by Madeleine’s disappearance and their ongoing effort to find her.
'Madeleine' by Kate McCann is published by Bantam Press. -
Rumer
After ten long years trying to make it as a singer, Rumer - otherwise known as Sarah Joyce - finally got her break last year when her first album Seasons of My Soul attracted such heavyweight fans as Elton John and Burt Bacharach, who flew her to California to sing for him. Thanks to her warm, mellow voice, she's been compared to Karen Carpenter and Dusty Springfield. But her easy listening reputation belies her often complex lyrics - and the biography behind them. Born in an idyllic expat bubble in Pakistan, she and her family moved back to Britain where her parents divorced. Then, aged 11, she discovered the reason: her biological father was the family's cook in Pakistan. In her 20s, she nursed her mother until her death from cancer and in her grief, went to live in a commune where she wrote many of the songs that went into her first album. Rumer joins Jenni to talk about becoming the singer-songwriter she’s always wanted to be and performs her song ‘Thankful’.
Rumer
Rumer’s album Seasons of my Soul is out now on Atlantic Records and she’ll be playing at the Hay-on-Wye Festival on 28th May. -
Femininity and character
How much is a girl’s character formed by the traditional notions we have of “femininity"? In a new report for the thinktank Demos, Yvonne Roberts considers some of the figures that have been dreamt up in the past and how they’ve shaped our view of ourselves – from Wonder Woman to our present day celebrities. Are we free to be the people we want to be without a veneer of acceptable feminity? Jenni is joined by Yvonne and Professor Carrie Paechter of Goldsmiths, University of London, the author of “Being Boys, Being Girls”.
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Dr Rachel Graham
Dr Rachel Graham from Belize is this year’s Whitley Gold award. Rachel, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Gulf and Caribbean Sharks and Rays Programme, has dedicated 20 years to protecting Belize’s sharks, rays and other ocean giants. The shark population is increasingly under threat from unsustainable fishing by other countries coupled with local misconceptions. Rachel talks to Jenni about her findings and the conservation work she is doing to protect these invaluable ocean giants.
Whitley award for nature
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BBC Radio 4Thu 12 May 2011 10:00 BBC Radio 4
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