Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,27 May 2014,55 mins

Leading Femen: The Topless Protesters

Outlook

Available for over a year

Femen leader Inna Shevchenko on a life of resistance which started as a teenager in Ukraine and led to exile in Paris, from where she organises protests in eleven countries. Also, Afghan boxer Ajmal Faizy fled the Taliban and found a new life in the north of England, where he lives with the family of his trainer Barry Higginson. And Liina Viira, the Estonian fashion designer who has been inspired by folk costumes to create new styles which combine traditional and modern. (Photo: Inna Shevchenko. Credit: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images)

Programme Website
More episodes