Riot Girls is a series on BBC Radio 4 celebrating female writers starting on Saturday (12 January).
This year's Riot Girls has three shows: Riot Days, How To Be A Woman and Into The Maze. Each show brings a very different story from women across the world.
More about the shows
Riot Girls: Riot Days. This is an account of Maria Alyokhina's activism, trial and imprisonment, as part of Russian feminist punk protest group Pussy Riot. It is dramatised by E V Crowe and stars Katie West, Kerry Gooderson and Kathryn Drysdale.
Riot Girls: How To Be A Woman. The second book and first memoir published by Caitlin Moran, a title she has now herself adapted for radio specially for the Riot Girls season. It features Moran as narrator and Louise Brealey as a young Caitlin making her way from adolescence to adulthood.
Riot Girls: Into The Maze. An international thriller spanning London, Saudi Arabia and Mumbai written by the award-winning Ayeesha Menon. Into the Maze follows Jamila and Saira, two sisters who grew up in a traditional Muslim village in India, but when Saira is raped her life is thrown into turmoil. Jamila starts to vlog about her sister’s case in her determination to bring the perpetrator to justice, but starts to receive menacing phone calls and death threats.
When can I listen?
Riot Girls starts on Saturday 12 January on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
Riot Days
12 January, 2.30pm and 13 January, 3pm pm BBC Radio 4
Available in full on BBC Sounds from 12 January
How To Be A Woman
14-18 January 2019, 10.45am on BBC Radio 4
Available as a boxset on BBC Sounds from 14 January
Into The Maze
14-16 January, 2.15pm on BBC Radio 4
