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Woman's Hour: Educating Rita at 40, Muslim women on love and desire & Teen mum to midwife

Educating Rita at 40 with Julie Walters, Willy Russell and real life Ritas

Educating Rita at 40, Muslim women on love and desire & Teen mum to midwife

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Educating Rita at 40, Muslim women on love and desire & Teen mum to midwife

The real Ritas of Educating Rita, and Muslim women discuss love and desire.

The real Ritas of Educating Rita, Muslim women talk about love and desire, and the teen mum Stephanie Walker who went on to become a midwife.

Forty years since Willy Russell’s play Educating Rita was first performed we hear from some real life Rita’s, Willy Russell and Julie Walters on the films influence

Sam Baker, the former editor of Cosmopolitan and Red and author of The Shift, Kelechi Okafor who’s an actor, director and podcaster and the journalist, Rebecca Reid, who’s written The Power of Rude on  how to be assertive without coming across as angry and unapproachable .

We hear how a book, A Match Made in Heaven,  featuring stories by British Muslim Women about Love And Desire is trying to get beyond the stereotypes of subservient Muslim women. Editors Nafhesa Ali and Claire Chambers and the writer Noren Haq discuss. 

Dame Cressida Dick the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police tells us how the force is managing during the ongoing pandemic 

Stephanie Walker on how she went from a fourteen year old pregnant teenager to a fully qualified midwife.

Plus the author Ann Cleaves talks about her latest novel The Darkest Evening – the ninth in the Vera series

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Beverley Purcell

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