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Woman's Hour: Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.

24/02/2020

Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.

Family Secrets, Melanie shares her story. Plus debut novelist Michelle Gallen.

Family Secrets, Melanie tells her story. Plus debut novelist Michelle Gallen talks about the inspiration behind "Big Girl, Small Town".

We continue our series Family Secrets. Listener Melanie explains why she finally went to the police to reveal her family secret after 37 years.

There's global attention on President Trump’s trip  to India – a guest of Prime Minister  Modi of the Hindu Nationalist  BJP.  This morning he'll be making a speech at a cricket stadium in  Gujarrat.   Meanwhile- hundreds of women are said to be on hunger strike in Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country, protesting about new Citizenship laws.   Salman, Divya Arya, a Women’s Affairs journalist at the BBC in India, gives us the background to the protests which have been going on for some time.

Plus Majella works in the local chip shop in a small town in Northern Ireland with her alcohol-dependent mother. She’s the subject of Michelle Gallen’s first novel ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ . She talks to Jane about the inspiration behind it.


Presented  Jane Garvey
Producer  Beverley Purcell

Guest; Michelle Gallen

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