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Producer Svana Gisla has kept the whole production on track for five years. The end result? A digital, 360-degree, immersive concert experience which feels like you’re watching ABBA, from the 1970s, perform in front of you.
Well almost… Agnetha, Freida, Benny and Björn spent 5 weeks performing their songs in motion capture suits so that their movements could be captured and turned into ABBA-TARS. One of the most successful pop groups in history is back! 40 years since their last concert, ABBA, are once again performing. Today the government is set to announce support, the Financial Times’ Clear Barrett joins Jessica on the programme to discuss how this could help you. The Living Wage Foundation has said that women are being disproportionately impacted by the cost of living crisis as they are more likely to be in low paid work. We speak to author and historian, Katie Hickman about a period of history she believes has never been as well-documented by women as this. Whether they were the hard-drinking hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns, 'ordinary' wives and mothers walking two thousand miles across the prairies pulling their handcarts behind them, Chinese slave-brides working in laundries, or the Native American women displaced by the mass migration, all have one trait in common: extreme resilience and courage in the face of the unknown. Bravehearted is a new book that explores the extraordinary story of the women of the American ‘Wild West’ during the 19th century. We discussed this last month - when our reporter Melanie Abbott heard that draft guidelines prepared by the Crown Prosecution Service were being overturned. They'll deter women from coming forward because police and prosecutors will STILL be allowed to ask for personal records like medical and therapy notes and even school reports. Today, long awaited guidelines on evidence in trials have been published which campaigners say will do just the opposite. It was a pledge made after the murder of Sarah Everard. Amongst all his other difficulties, Boris Johnson has promised to improve the outcome for rape victims, saying he will fix the system.