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Woman's Hour

Odaline de la Martinez, Working Conditions for Au Pairs, and Jessica Chastain

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Au pairs and their host families - new research from Birkbeck, University of London indicates that there's currently little protection in terms of working hours, pay and living conditions. The Cuban born UK based conductor Odaline de la Martinez talks about turning 65 and why she's premiering part two of her Afro-Cuban Slavery Opera Trilogy at the London Festival of American Music. Giana Ferguson and her daughter Clovisse has written a book, Gubbeen: the story of a working farm and its food. She joins Jane to talk about life on the farm in West Cork, working with her husband and two children. Hollywood actor Jessica Chastain talks about her new role in the big budget movie about space and time travel, Interstellar. For seventy years the Colonial Nursing Association sent thousands of hard working, adventurous nurses to work in the colonies across the British Empire. These nurses' experiences are highlighted in Passages of Empire, the 15 minute drama on radio 4 this week. Jane talks to two former colonial nurses and Anne Marie Rafferty, historian and Professor Nursing Policy at King's College, London. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Nicole Busch
Interviewed Guest:
Odaline de la Martinez
Interviewed Guest:
Giana Ferguson
Interviewed Guest:
Jessica Chastain
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Marie Rafferty
Interviewed Guest:
Dorothy Pirkis
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Napier Bax

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