Badass Womens Hour

Ep 313: A Badass New Decade Begins with Grace Campbell & Owain Astles

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It’s the first week of a brand new decade and we’re kicking things off badass.The first guest this week is Grace Campbell , Grace has been a feminist activist for several years, she and some friends started the campaign group “pink protest” which helped to launch the “Free Periods Campaign” aimed at helping women and girls facing period poverty. She is also the co-creator of the Channel 4’s “Riot-girls” an all female comedy prank show and quickly caught the stand up bug. As well as a long list of talents she is also the daughter of politician Alister Campbell as Grace tells this can be quite polarising for her audiences, they have joined forces to create a podcast chatting “Football, Feminism and Everything in-between”.The second guest this week is Owain Astles the filmmaker behind the docu-drama “Sleeping Rough” which takes frank look at the state of homelessness in the UK with an Increase of 165% in recent years the Owain tell the ladies what is behind the rise. After a period of sofa-surfing Owain learnt m