“The piece is about what we are all experiencing during lockdown, but not in exactly the same way.” Artist and listener Sue Brown and her friend Louise Asher tell us about ‘Same Sea, Different Boat’ – a community quilt-making project:
LISTENER WEEK; A former prison officer and a former social worker on the novels they've written about their jobs. Plus the evolution of the buggy and the joys of quilting.LISTENER WEEK: Josie Channer and Teresa Devereux are both listeners who felt that they had to write novels about what they’d experienced through their work. Josie’s written Diary of a Prison Officer and Teresa’s based her novel Broken Lives on what she saw and heard as a social worker.
Sarah Fraser is an associate professor at Princess Nourah Bint University in Riyadh, the largest female-only university in the world. She got in touch because she wanted to talk about the supportive and collaborative there,. She believes that despite most people believing the opposite, a country like Saudi Arabia does not oppress women. Rothna Begum, senior women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch with focus on the Middle East adds her perspective.
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