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Woman's Hour: Odaline de la Martinez, Working Conditions for Au Pairs, and Jessica Chastain

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

03/11/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Odaline de la Martinez, Working Conditions for Au Pairs, and Jessica Chastain

Hollywood actor Jessica Chastain talks about her role in the movie Interstellar.

The Cuban-born UK-based conductor Odaline de la Martinez turns 65, the varying working conditions for au pairs in the UK, and Jessica Chastain on her role in Interstellar.

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.

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