Petula Clark, Teenagers and online coercion, Clocks going back
Singer, actor and performer, Petula Clark’s career has spanned over eight decades. She sang to wartime troops in the 40s, was a 1950s child star, became a European musical icon, before conquering America with her No 1 hit Downtown. She starred in Hollywood movies alongside Fred Astaire and performed on stage in musicals including The Sound of Music, Sunset Boulevard and most recently Mary Poppins. Her autobiography - Is That You, Petula? is out now and she joins Nuala McGovern to look back at her long career.There were two big leadership contests over the weekend, both of which saw two female candidates going head to head. In the UK Lucy Powell beat Bridget Phillipson to become the Deputy leader of the Labour Party, while in Ireland Catherine Connolly won the Presidency over Heather Humphries. So what does this say about political leadership in both countries and what impact will this have on women. Una Mullally, columnist at the Irish Times and Eleanor Langford, political reporter at the I newspaper discuss.A new BBC podcast tells the story of a shadowy online community known as 764. It's triggered alarm among several international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, who are actively investigating its activities as representing a danger to all children. 764 recruits teenagers online through mainstream chatrooms, where they are coerced into live-streaming rituals, engaging in self-harm, and participating in conversations that promote suicide and acts of violence. Nuala speaks to BBC journalist, Jo Palmer, host of the podcast, and Megan Hinton, Victim and Survivor Advocate at the Marie Collins Foundation, which works to tackle technology-assisted child sexual abuse.How did you feel when your alarm went off this morning? Dazed, confused or refreshed? As the clocks go back and we return to Greenwich Mean Time, there is a suggestion that women’s wellbeing may be impacted more negatively than men’s according to new research that surveyed 10,000 people this time last year. Ruth Ogden, Professor of the Psychology of Time at Liverpool John Moores University shares her findings.Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Kirsty Starkey
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