SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2020

SAT 01:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7wp4r)
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.


SAT 01:06 Business Matters (w172x18y1blnx7n)
TikTok ban in the US concerns ‘politics, not privacy’

We look at the history that led up to the US ban of Chinese-owned app TikTok . As New Zealand falls in to recession, the effect of coronavirus has shifted its economy, despite the low number of Covid-related deaths. The impact of wildfires in parts of the US will be on the mind of voters this year as they head to the polls to vote for the next US president, as climate change is partly blamed for many of the blazes. We discuss all this live with guest Colin Peacock from Radio New Zealand, in Auckland.

(Image: TikTok app logo in foreground, shadowed US flag in background. Photo by NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 02:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7wsww)
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SAT 02:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bc38dgkb0)
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SAT 02:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vl558)
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SAT 02:32 Stumped (w3cszhjp)
Rhodes on cricket's fielding revolution

Reaction to Australia's thrilling victory over England in the one-day series at Old Trafford.

Former South Africa star Jonty Rhodes on the incredible advances in fielding in the Indian Premier League, which starts in Dubai this weekend.

And as women's international cricket returns, West Indies batter Hayley Matthews relives the day when she toppled Australia to win the T20 World Cup at the age of 18.

Photo: Jonty Rhodes (Getty Images)


SAT 03:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7wxn0)
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SAT 03:06 The Fifth Floor (w3cszjhk)
Protests against Colombia's police

A video showing the repeated tazering of a Colombian lawyer Javier Ordóñez by police as he begged for mercy, and his subsequent death from internal injuries, triggered riots in which several people died. BBC Mundo's Daniel Pardo is based in Bogota, and explains what this story reveals about Colombians relationship with law enforcement.

My Hometown: Hanoi
A return visit with Nga Pham to her hometown of Hanoi, Vietnam and a walk down the tree lined streets.

Ghana Nigeria sibling rivalry
The rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana is well known, but the two countries also share a close relationship despite not being neighbours. We bring together Nigeria’s Peter Okwoche and Mark Wilberforce from Ghana to explore how the countries see each other.

Shot by an arrow by those he protected
Rieli Franciscato was one of Brazil’s best known advocates for the rights of the indigenous peoples who live cut off from mainstream Brazilian civilisation in the Amazon. But last week he was killed by those same people he was trying to protect, as Brazilian Fernando Duarte explains.

Moscow Big Brother
Moscow prides itself on being a ‘smart city’. Free wifi all around the city, facial recognition and traffic management systems all make life easy and safe for citizens. But surveillance during Covid-19 has highlighted a darker side to the technology. Andrei Zakharov of BBC Russian explores if the smart city, can be turned into a Big Brother.

PHOTO Colombian woman protests after death of Javier Ordóñez
PHOTO CREDIT: JOAQUIN SARMIENTO/AFP via Getty Images


SAT 03:50 Witness History (w3cszmvf)
The mothers of Argentina's disappeared

In April 1977 a group of women in Argentina held the first ever public demonstration to demand the release of thousands of opponents of the military regime. It was the start of a long campaign by the women, who became known as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In 2017 Mike Lanchin spoke to Mirta Baravalle who has spent decades searching for her missing daughter and son-in-law, and for the grandchild she has never met.

(Photo: Mirta Baravalle, with the photograph of her daughter, Ana Maria. Credit: BBC)


SAT 04:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7x1d4)
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SAT 04:06 The Real Story (w3cszcnf)
Covid unemployment: A new crisis?

Millions have been left without work as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate economies across the globe. This week, there’s been a sharp rise in the unemployment rate in Britain. This follows recent increases in other European countries. The International Labour Organisation has warned the pandemic is having a “devastating and disproportionate” impact on youth employment. In the United States, unemployment remains above 10 percent in black and Hispanic communities. After India’s lockdown ended, many living in cities have found their old jobs gone - with former office workers, builders, drivers and factory workers left scrambling to find alternative employment. But analysts warn that the longer the crisis goes on, the more jobs simply won’t return - replaced, they say, by automation or artificial intelligence solutions that don’t get sick and don’t need to socially distance. And while this trend existed before Covid, there are signs the virus has brought forward an employment challenge many governments had hoped to address years down the line. So how can governments minimise job losses, help retrain those whose past careers have gone, and make sure younger workers are prepared for the jobs of the future - all during a time of reduced revenue from taxation and ballooning deficits? Dan Damon and a panel of experts discuss what should be done about rising unemployment in the age of Covid-19?


SAT 05:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7x548)
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SAT 05:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bc38dgxkd)
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SAT 05:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vljdn)
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SAT 05:32 Comedians Vs. The News (w3ct0x3b)
Bassem Youssef and Maz Jobrani

Egypt’s top satirist Bassem Youssef and acclaimed American comic Maz Jobrani join comedy duo Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini to take on the world's headlines.
This week, what do immigrants in the US really think of Donald Trump? Why are Egyptian performers being censored on TikTok? And the woman bringing North and South Koreans together, in the name of love.
Get involved and tell us about the funny stories where you are.
#comediansvsthenews


SAT 06:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7x8wd)
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SAT 06:06 Weekend (w172x7czzqlvn53)
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies

We assess Justice Ginsburg's legacy and look at the politics of her succession already under way.

The Belarusian women who pull the masks off the faces of unidentified security forces who detain protesters.

And the impact of Siberia's thawing permafrost on climate change.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Michela Wrong, a journalist and author specialising in Africa, and Eric Albert, a London-based correspondent for French newspaper, Le Monde.

(Photo: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at The Women"s Conference in California in 2010. Credit: Reuters)


SAT 07:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7xdmj)
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SAT 07:06 Weekend (w172x7czzqlvrx7)
Britain's Brexit debate

As the debate over Britain's exit from the European Union continues, we hear from a UK Member of Parliament.

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at the age of 87, we assess her legacy.

And the loopholes in the money transfer business in Somalia that is helping fuel in arms trade in Yemen.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Michela Wrong, a journalist and author specialising in Africa, and Eric Albert, a London-based correspondent for French newspaper, Le Monde.

(Picture: UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, during the debate on the Internal Market Bill in the House of Commons, London. Credit: PA)


SAT 08:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7xjcn)
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SAT 08:06 Weekend (w172x7czzqlvwnc)
The politics to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg

As the race is on to succeed US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has died at the age of 87, we look at her life and legacy.

A spike in coronavirus cases in countries once known for low cases.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Michela Wrong, a journalist and author specialising in Africa, and Eric Albert, a London-based correspondent for French newspaper, Le Monde.

(Picture: Hundreds stopped by the US Supreme Court building in DC to pay their respects after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Credit: Essdras M Suarez/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock)


SAT 08:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vlwn1)
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SAT 08:32 The Documentary (w3ct0x1y)
Rulebreakers

The shepherd and the settler

Muhammad is a Bedouin shepherd in a remote corner of the West Bank called Rashash. His family has been herding sheep and goats in Rashash for 30 years and in Palestine for generations. But since Israeli settlers recently moved in nearby it has become difficult for Muhammad to graze his flock undisturbed.

When producer Max Freedman visits Rashash, he sees this conflict in action. One settler tries to scatter the sheep by driving towards them in an all-terrain vehicle. Another chases after the flock on horseback. An Israeli activist tries to use his body as a human shield.

After leaving Rashash, Max sets out to understand what he saw there.


Presenter/reporter: Max Freedman
Producer: Max Freedman, Ilana Levinson, and Emily Bell
Editor: Ilana Levinson

(Photo: Palestinian shepherds and Israeli activists on a hillside. Credit: Max Freedman)


SAT 09:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7xn3s)
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SAT 09:06 BBC OS Conversations (w3ct0wk0)
Coronavirus: Friendships during lockdown

Covid-19 is affecting our relationships - some are better, others are more challenging. A jewellery designer in India and a lawyer in the United States share their experiences and discover they have a lot in common when it comes to changing friendships and building your ‘Covid tribe’.

For those wishing to meet someone special, this is an especially difficult time. Three single people from Zimbabwe and the US discuss dating during a pandemic.

And an Israeli doctor airs concerns about the social effects of isolation, as the country becomes the first in the world to undergo a second national lockdown.

(Photo and Credit: Danyl Patterson)


SAT 09:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vm0d5)
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SAT 09:32 United Zingdom (w3ct0wl9)
United Zingdom

19/09/2020 GMT

Zing Tsjeng wonders what it means to be British. She travels around the UK to find out.


SAT 09:50 Over to You (w3cszf4t)
Looking back at World Service listener's recent comments

We hear how passionate you listeners are about the BBC World Service as we present a selection of recent contributions to this programme. The presenter of Hard Talk gets a gentle grilling of his own, you give us your beefs about the misuse of the English language - and one listener gives her perspective on the network as a whole.

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Produced: Howard Shannon


SAT 10:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7xrvx)
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SAT 10:06 Sportshour (w172x3byygxfknm)
Tiara Brown: No one in my family wanted me to be a police officer

Tiara Brown joins us to discuss balancing life as a black athlete and police officer in the USA in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the shooting of Jacob Blake. The former amateur world champion boxer tells us she decided to join the police after her brother was murdered. Brown worries that police brutality is something that will never stop and she reveals she has considered leaving the force. She also gives us her thoughts on the movement to “Defund the police”, what it was like growing up with two mothers in the 1980s and her belief that women’s professional boxing will never gain true equality with the men’s ranks.

As women’s international cricket resumes this week New Zealand cricket captain - Sophie Devine - speaks to us ahead of their ODI and T20 series against Australia. Devine tells us about life in quarantine, how she’s expecting both sides to struggle initially and about her hopes of regaining the Rose Bowl for the first time in twenty years. Devine also recalls how gutted she was when the inaugural edition of The Hundred was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Devine says she is hoping to play in it in England in 2021.

With the Tour de France finishing in Paris this weekend, we catch up with Jean Luc Perez. The professor and decorated amateur cyclist has been our companion over the last few weeks and he gives us his final thoughts on how the people of France have taken to a much changed race.

Staying with cycling, we hear from amateur adventurer Otto Ecroyd after he rode from Alaska to Mexico. He tells us about encountering bears and the kindness of strangers on his trip.

In Sporting Witness, we mark twenty years since the Sydney Olympics by hearing from swimmer Susie O’Neill. We hear how carrying the hopes of her nation in the pool, weighed heavily on her shoulders.

And – we’re live at Goodison Park as Everton look to continue their strong start to the Premier League season against recently promoted West Bromwich Albion.

Photo:Tiara Brown between rounds against Vanessa Bradford at Generoso Pope Athletic Complex on October 24, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Edward Diller/Getty Images)


SAT 11:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7xwm1)
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SAT 11:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bc38dhn15)
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SAT 11:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vm7wf)
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SAT 11:32 The Documentary (w3ct0hyx)
The Detransitioners

He2She2He

Detransitioners are people who once identified as trans, but have returned to the gender they were assigned at birth. Some may also re-identify as non-binary or gender-fluid. There are no figures revealing how many people reverse or change their gender journeys – we only know that more people are telling their stories.

Brian Belovitch was born a boy, and then transitioned and lived for more than a decade as Natalia – a performer, club hostess and glamorous party animal. Then at a crisis point in his life he made a momentous decision – to live again as Brian.

These are not easy choices. Daniel was brought up male, then had gender reassignment surgery and became Danielle. Now he has detransitioned, married a woman, and is awaiting a complex operation to reconstruct his male genitalia.

Producer: Lucy Proctor
Presenter: Linda Pressly


SAT 12:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7y0c5)
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SAT 12:06 Music Life (w3csz6tc)
Songwriting first dates with Melanie C and Nadia Rose

A stellar collection of musicians and songwriters this week, and who better to lead the discussion than somebody who has sold in excess of 85 million records? Singer, songwriter, presenter, DJ, and Spice Girl Melanie C asks the group candid questions about creativity, including the importance of dynamics in a songwriting team, what is it that informs the sound they want to make, and the thing they really love about making music.

First up Nadia Rose, a rapper from South London who’s been writing bars and performing since her school days. She’s gone on to write for Rihanna and has won a MOBO Award for the music video to huge hit Skwod. She’s also Stormzy’s cousin. Rae Morris is a singer and songwriter who released her debut single aged 20. She’s since shared stages with Lianne La Havas, Bombay Bicycle Club and George Ezra, and has worked with Lucy Rose and Clean Bandit.

And finally, Jin Jin is a platinum-selling musician, songwriter and entrepreneur who grew up around her grandfather’s reggae music store. Since then she has written with the likes of Sigala, Jax Jones, David Guetta, Clean Bandit, Little Mix, Craig David, Tinie Tempah, Raye, and Jess Glynne.


SAT 13:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7y439)
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SAT 13:06 Newshour (w172x2ywkwrm9qw)
Death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg triggers political row

Tributes to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however, threaten to be overshadowed by the political firestorm that her death and the resulting vacancy on the highest court in the US will set off just 46 days before the presidential election.

Also on the programme: In Belarus protesters pull down the masks of those carrying out arrests in the hope that they will one day be identified and held accountable for their actions; and condemnation from China calling out US "bullying" after the decision by the Trump administration to ban downloads of the apps, Tiktok and Wechat .

Photo: Candles are lit next to pictures of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as people mourn her death at the Supreme Court in Washington Credit: Reuters


SAT 14:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7y7vf)
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SAT 14:06 Sportsworld (w172x3lby1bmshr)
Live Premier League commentary

Sportsworld brings you live coverage of Leeds United vs.Fulham as two of the three newly promoted sides face each other on the second weekend of the Premier League.

We'll have reaction to all the day's top flight action.

Plus the Indian Premier League returns along with women's international cricket. We'll be joined by special guests to discuss the first international women's cricket since the T20 World Cup. And we'll have the latest from golf's US Open and the NBA.

Photo credit: Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa and Fulham manager Scott Parker (Getty Images).


SAT 18:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7yqty)
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SAT 18:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bc38djh82)
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SAT 18:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vn33b)
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SAT 18:32 Trending (w3csyvnc)
The problem with the viral celery juice ‘cure’

The Medical Medium has millions of followers on social media. He claims he can help cure your chronic illness with home remedies like celery juice.

But he doesn’t have any medical qualifications. Instead, he claims he gets his medical information from communicating with spirits.

Thousands of people online say he’s helped them. But could his claims be stopping patients seeking the medical help they need. And is the rise of unqualified influencers creating distrust in real doctors?

We explore the booming celery juice trend and meet the doctor who is trying to start a counter-movement to get qualified medical professionals to use social media more effectively.

Presenter: Jonathan Griffin
Reporter: Ione Wells

(Photo Caption: Screenshot of the Medical Medium Instagram account / Photo Credit: Instagram)


SAT 18:50 More or Less (w3ct0pxv)
The magical maths of pool testing

Tim Harford speaks to Israeli researcher, Tomer Hertz, about how the mathematical magic of pool testing could help countries to ramp up their Covid-19 testing capacity.


SAT 19:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7yvl2)
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SAT 19:06 World Questions (w3cszt5z)
USA

The upcoming elections in the US are the focus for this month's World Questions.
Katty Kay in Washington D.C. chairs a lively debate with four leading US politicians from across the country to discuss the big issues: Covid-19, the wearing of masks, support for the poor, Black Lives Matter, law and order and the recent wildfires. An audience from across the US joins remotely with questions to the panel coming from around the world.

The panel:
Mayor Quinton Lucas, Kansas City
Rep. Bruce Westerman, Arkansas
Mayor Aja Brown, Compton City
Mayor Francis Suarez, Miami City

Producer: Helen Towner
Studio Managers: Lee Chaundy, Henry Dutton & Duncan Hannant

BBC World Questions is a series of international events created in partnership with the British Council.

(Photo: Statue of Liberty in a medical mask. Credit: Anton Petrus/Getty Images)


SAT 20:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7yzb6)
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SAT 20:06 The Arts Hour (w3cszk3b)
Actor Hilary Swank

On The Arts Hour this week: Oscar winning actor Hilary Swank talks about how she prepared for her role as an astronaut in her timely new Netflix drama Away; Writer Afua Hirsch explores the history of how the British spun an idealised stereotype about their Empire through film propaganda; and
French director Ladj Ly on Les Miserables, his Oscar-nominated depiction of the Parisian suburbs that has caught the attention of President Macron.

Singer Miley Cyrus pays homage to Billie Eilish and how young singers are inspiring a new generation with their music and activism, plus sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar plays from her latest work Love Letters, an EP inspired by heartbreak.

Nikki Bedi’s guests this week are the godfather of computer gaming Sid Meier, who will be talking about his life in games and his most popular creation the game Civilisation, and film curator and producer Nadia Denton.

Produced for the BBC World Service by Edwina Pitman.

(Photo: Hilary Swank. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)


SAT 21:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7z32b)
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SAT 21:06 Newshour (w172x2ywkwrn8px)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Trump wants replacement 'without delay'

President Donald Trump says he wants a new US Supreme Court judge to be sworn in "without delay". Democratic candidate Joe Biden insists the decision on her replacement must wait until after the November election.

Also in the programme: the Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar is to be crowned the Tour de France champion; and the story of a female Soviet spy in rural England.

(Photo: United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an event at New York Law School in 2018. Photo: EPA)


SAT 22:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7z6tg)
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SAT 22:06 From Our Own Correspondent (w3csz9q0)
Israel's warming relations with Arab Gulf states

Pascale Harter introduces analysis, reportage and personal reflections from correspondents around the world.

Israel has signed a deal normalising relations with two regional neighbours, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Behind the agreement lies a strategy to try to unite against Iran. The Palestinian authorities have condemned it as a betrayal arguing it makes no progress towards the resolution of the decades-old conflict or the creation of a viable Palestinian state. Yolande Knell wonders what young people in Israel and the Gulf make of it.

Wildfires continue to rage across the West Coast of the United States. Tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes. Some have lost everything with over two million hectares of land scorched. Our correspondent Peter Bowes knows the reality of what it’s like to be caught up in the fires.

On Lesbos, efforts have begun to move thousands of men, women and children made homeless to a new tent encampment on the Greek island. Bethany Bell has heard from refugees and migrants who have been sleeping on the streets and in olive groves since the Moria camp burnt down. On Wednesday four Afghan asylum seekers were charged with starting the fire in Moria camp.

During any other year, the Serengeti in Tanzania at this time would be in peak safari season; lodges would be fully booked and carloads of tourists would be ranging the reserve, eager to catch a glimpse of a leopard. But as Michelle Jana Chan has found, although Tanzania has officially been relatively unscathed by cases of coronavirus so far, international travel restrictions have hit the tourism industry here hard.

Presenter: Pascale Harter
Producer: Bethan Head
Editor: Jasper Corbett

(Image: Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Abdullatif Al Zayani and Abdullah bin Zayed wave from the White House balcony after a signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords, 15 September 2020. Credit: Reuters Reuters/Tom Brenner)


SAT 22:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vnl2v)
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SAT 22:32 The Documentary (w3cszz69)
Looking for love: The Zoroastrian way

The Zoroastrian community has given the world Freddie Mercury, produced some of India’s richest businessmen and practises one of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. Yet the community faces extinction: there are less than 200,000 Zoroastrians left worldwide.

Shazneen is one of them. She is 31, lives in London and is on the lookout for someone to settle down with. The problem? Members of her small community can only marry other Zoroastrians. Marriage to a non-Zoroastrian is not traditionally allowed and unlike a lot of other faiths, conversion has always been forbidden.

Now, some young people are questioning these rules, performing their own conversion ceremonies to bring others into the Zoroastrian fold and marrying outside the religion.

But these are controversial practices and dismissed by many, like Shazneen. For her, going to the World Zoroastrian Youth Congress, held every four years, is her best chance of finding a partner from the same faith.

As well as the formalities of religious debates, hundreds of Zoroastrians will come together to spend a week in Los Angeles taking in the sun, sea and sand.

With the future of the Zoroastrian religion at stake, followers hope its younger members, like Shazneen, can emulate Freddie Mercury and find ‘somebody to love’. But will she succeed?

(Photo: Shazneen Munshi at the Zoroastrian Youth Congress)


SAT 23:00 BBC News (w172x5p03c7zbkl)
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SAT 23:06 The Newsroom (w172x7bc38dk2zq)
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SAT 23:30 BBC News Summary (w172x5ptk2vnptz)
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SAT 23:32 Heart and Soul (w3ct0x63)
The lives of female Qur'an reciters

Around the world, there are differing attitudes to recitation of the Qur'an and the female voice in Islam. For some, female reciters should be restricted to female-only spaces, reciting verses in female prayer circles or Islamic lectures, for fear that the voice in public arenas with mixed audiences can bring about sin. But in many cultures it is permissible and encouraged to platform female reciters, and there is growing appetite from women online to bring more women into the field.

Nusaiba Mohammad Timol is one reciter who grew up between Saudi Arabia and the UK. Never hearing a female reciter perform publicly during her childhood, she was the first winner of Islam Channel's national Qiraat (recitation) competition in 2006 and has gone onto recite publicly as well as teach both men and women how to recite. But her reception has not been completely positive - and a record deal was scuppered when investors in Egypt said it was not appropriate to sign a woman.

We hear from Madinah Javed and Maryam Amir, two reciters across the Atlantic from each other who are using Instagram to raise awareness about female recitation and scholarship, and from some of the women that they have inspired.

Producer/presenter: Sophia Smith Galer

(Photo credit: BBC/Emily MacInnes)