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Woman's Hour: Anoushka Shankar, School refusers, Cardi B

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Anoushka Shankar, Models, Parveen Kumar, Stockton-on-Tees

07/10/2017

Anoushka Shankar, School refusers, Cardi B

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Anoushka Shankar on her score for the silent movie Shiraz, Sarah Millican and Cardi B.

Anoushka Shankar on composing the score for the 1928 silent film Shiraz, Sarah Millican talks about How to be Champion, and what to do if your child refuses to go to school.

The British Indian Composer Anoushka Shankar talks about writing a new score for the 1928 silent film Shiraz, a love story about the 17th century princess who inspired thebuilding of the Taj Mahal.

The stand up comedian Sarah Millican on her autobiography How to be Champion. 

As part of our series on the Best Place to Be a Woman we look at why Stockton-On-Tees was one of the worst places for accessing culture with Annabel Turpin who
runs ARC Stockton Arts Centre and Charlotte Hall a local mum who started her own choir.

We talk about what to do if you child doesn't want to go to school, whether they are tearful, reluctant or actually refusing to go. Mum of three Rebecca and psychologist Vivian Hill discuss.

Cardi B is currently number one on the Billboard Charts, only the second solo female hip hop artist to achieve the number one spot. Helen Thomas writer for NME Magazine and Buzzfeed tells us about Cardi B's rise to the top.

The Independent Custody Visiting Association drop in unannounced to check that people in police custody are treated appropriately. They say vulnerable women in custody should be offered better sanitary protection. Katie Kempen Chief Executive of ICVA and Superintendent Katy Barrow-Grint of Thames Valley Police discuss.

2017 marks the centenary of the Medical Women's Federation. To celebrate, we hear from leading female clinicians on who has inspired them. Dame Fiona Caldicott 
who was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, talks about Dr Helen Boyle and her work in revolutionising mental healthcare.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Jane Thurlow.

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