Six the Musical, Author Hannah Jewell on 'snowflakes', Women in Ukraine

Six the Musical is currently on stage at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. The show follows Henry VIII’s six wives, as they take the microphone for the first time in a ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ style sing-off. Originally written by two Cambridge University students and showcased at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, it has since taken London’s West End by storm and has just opened on Broadway. Joining Emma are Lucy Moss, co-director and co-writer of the show, and Tsemaye Bob-Egbe, who plays Henry VIII’s fifth wife Katherine Howard in a brand new London cast. Are the youth of today oversensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually weak? Is cancel culture spiralling out of hand? According to journalist and writer Hannah Jewell, aged 32, author of a new book, We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive the angry and the offended, the term ‘snowflakes’ has been used to demonise young people who care passionately about fighting racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and economic inequality. As Russian troops mass on the border with Ukraine, and NATO warns of a risk of fresh conflict in Europe, we speak to BBC Ukrainian Service journalist Irena Taranyuk about the pressures and decisions facing women in her country right now.