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Woman's Hour: Maria Callas, Loulou Storey & Lucy Adlington on casual workwear, International Aid legal challenge & slavery reparations

19/07/2021

Maria Callas, Loulou Storey & Lucy Adlington on casual workwear, International Aid legal challenge & slavery reparations

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Maria Callas, Loulou Storey & Lucy Adlington on casual workwear, International Aid legal challenge & slavery reparations

Maria Callas, slavery reparations, workwear trends, international aid legal challenge.

The life of opera singer Maria Callas, the Georgia farmer making reparations for her family owning slaves in the past, casual workwear trends and a legal challenge over aid cuts.

Maria Callas is one of the most famous opera singers. She was brought up in New York and Greece by an emotionally abusive mother who forced her to sing. Despite being admired by Hollywood stars and royalty, she fought sexism to rise to the top but never had a happy private life.  Lyndsy Spence's new book Cast a Diva draws on previously unseen documents to reveal her tragic story.

Stacie Marshall has inherited her family's farm in a small Appalachian valley in the US state of Georgia. She'd vaguely known about the history of her family and their land but it wasn't until she moved into her grandparents house that she realised her family had in fact owned seven enslaved people.  Now Stacie, the only young woman running a farm in the valley, is trying to make amends for the wrongs of her ancestors.  She joins us live from Georgia and we also hear from Nkechi Taifa  a civil and human rights lawyer and long-standing reparations advocate.

A charity that provides sexual and reproductive support to disadvantaged women around the world is threatening legal action against the UK government, over their recent decision to cut the international aid budget by around £4 billion.  We speak to Mina Barlow, Director for External Relations at The International Planned Parenthood Foundation.

And we look at the new casual officewear trends with Fashion Historian Lucy Adlington & Style Coach Loulou Storey to consider if the way we dress for work has changed forever? 

Presenter: Chloe Tilley
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Sue Maillot

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