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Just when I think I can’t love Tina Fey any more than I already do, she up and goes and does something to make me love her even harder. In this case, she hosts a 2-hour NPR special called “The Hidden World of Girls.” It is so good that I really wish she could have her own series, like a female Ira Glass. Unfortunately, I don’t think NPR gives anyone their own show unless they have two things: a shween and a speech impediment. But enough about that.
Listen to the first hour below, and you’ll hear the following stories:
- The story of The Braveheart Women’s Society: Coming of Age in South Dakota, a journey to a four-day rite of passage ceremony for Sioux girls from the banks of the Missouri River.
- From the foothills of Dublin, The Hidden World of Traveller Girls. Travellers, the gypsies of Ireland, nomads traveling in caravans, camping by the side of the road. The men live for horses, the girls for their weddings. Big elaborate weddings.
- We travel to Wayne County, Mississippi into the world of Girls Who Hunt.
- We grapple with issues of family, crime, violence and reckoning in the story, Deborah Luster: One Big Self
- Russia’s Singing Babushkas—a group of elderly women from Buranovo, Russia, who began singing together and who have become a musical sensation at concerts performing Beatles songs.
- And science fiction stories of friendship, superpowers and the Beatles.
