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Woman's Hour: Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.

22/03/2022

Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.

Who was Ellen Wilkinson? And Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN’s World Food Programme.

Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty, director of the United Nations World Food Programme in Afghanistan, public breakups, and local politics and hybrid working.

Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Poet and playwright Caroline Bird aims to tell us all about her as her new work Red Ellen goes on tour.

Yesterday Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe faced a room of journalists and cameras.  She knew what she wanted to say, and what she didn't want to say after six years away from home.   Despite the trauma she's been through why do some people feel she needs to express more gratitude? What are their reasons? And how surprising is it to see these comments?  We hear from Gina Miller who took the Government to court - and won - over how it tried to implemented Brexit without approval from Parliament.
Emily Thornberry a former Shadow Foreign Secretary.

With millions experiencing food insecurity in Afghanistan what impact does this have on women’s rights? Emma speaks to Mary-Ellen McGroarty, director of the United Nations World Food Programme in Afghanistan.

Are you someone who can’t help but pick up a gossip magazine? Do you love nothing more than finding out about the latest celebrity break up? Chartered clinical psychologist Dr Hamira Riaz; and Dr Aisha K. Gill, Professor of Criminology at the University of Roehampton discuss why do we do it and whether it's good for us to watch relationships breakdown in public.

And the study from Cardiff University that suggests that hybrid working may encourage more women to take up local politics.

Presenter Emma Barnett
Producer Beverley Purcell

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