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Woman's Hour: Director, Carrie Cracknell, Playwright, Polly Stenham and 'Julie' at the National Theatre

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21/06/2018

Director, Carrie Cracknell, Playwright, Polly Stenham and 'Julie' at the National Theatre

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Director, Carrie Cracknell, Playwright, Polly Stenham and 'Julie' at the National Theatre

Julie, Children & US/Mexico border, Linda Jackson, Danielle de Niese and Katharine Towers.

Adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie, family separation on the US/Mexican border, Citroen CEO Linda Jackson, Australian soprano Danielle de Niese and poet Katharine Towers.

Playwright, Polly Stenham and Director, Carrie Cracknell discuss 'Julie', their new version of Strindberg's anti-heroine 'Miss Julie'. They join Jenni to discuss the tale of a fatal love affair and the complexities of class, gender and race.

As a result of a policy change, the US Government is separating families who seek asylum in the US by crossing the border illegally. We hear from a leading US paediatrician about her work on the Mexico border and her concerns for the migrant children separated from their parents. And Valeria Luiselli, the US-based Mexican writer who worked as a translator for unaccompanied migrant children, discusses what has changed for child migrants recently. 

Linda Jackson, the CEO of Citroën, has just been named the most influential British woman in the car industry. She discusses her influence as the first female - and British - CEO of the French car manufacturer, how she developed her career and turned around the business, and increasing equality and representation of women in the very male dominated car industry.

In January of this year alone, the work of female composers made up only 1.5% of British classical performances. Often, it's claimed that composing just wasn't something women did when classical masterpieces were being crafted. But in her new documentary, Danielle de Niese, shines a light on five women who not only composed, but were at the top of their game at the time. She explains who they were, and why we don't remember their names anymore.

Today is the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. Katharine Towers will read her poem 'A Green Thought' to mark the changing of the seasons. Her first collection of poetry, The Floating Man, was published to huge acclaim, it won her the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry and her second collection, titled 'The Remedies', was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.

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