Bee Rowlatt

Bee Rowlatt is a writer, journalist and activist. She chaired the 'Mary on the Green' campaign to memorialise Mary Wollstonecraft, unveiling Maggi Hambling's tribute to the pioneer of feminist thought on Newington Green in November 2020.Her book In Search of Mary won the Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust award, and the best-seller Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad was dramatised by the BBC and translated into numerous languages. Bee is a founding Trustee of the human rights education charity the Wollstonecraft Society and wrote the play An Amazon Stept Out for its launch at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. Bee contributed to Virago's Fifty Shades of Feminism, and clocked over two decades at BBC World Service. She speaks fluent Spanish and has a research background in Latin America. She's written for BBC Online, The Telegraph, Grazia, Die Welt, Times, Guardian and Daily Mail, and appears regularly on tv and radio. She is an all-round legend and we love her.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-world-as-it-should-be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.