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Woman's Hour: Actor Ruth Wilson. Kinship Care. Rear Admiral Jude Terry. Body hair in history.

Actor Ruth Wilson. Kinship Care. Rear Admiral Jude Terry. Body hair in history.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Actor Ruth Wilson. Kinship Care. Rear Admiral Jude Terry. Body hair in history.

Actor Ruth Wilson talks to Emma Barnett about her latest roles on stage and screen.

Best known for The Affair and Luther, actor Ruth Wilson joins Emma to talk about her two latest roles – on the London stage in The Human Voice and on screen in True Things.

Best known for The Affair and Luther, and more recently playing  her own grandmother in a BBC drama, actor Ruth Wilson joins Emma to talk about her two latest roles – on the London stage in The Human Voice and on screen in True Things.

Jude Terry is the first female Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy’s history. Since joining the Navy in 1997, she has served aboard HMS Scott, and spent two spells with helicopter carrier HMS Ocean, during operations in the Baltic and the Gulf. Two months into her post, Emma talks to her about her new role.

What’s the best way of looking after children who can no longer stay with their birth parents when a family breaks down? Woman’s Hour understands that the Independent Review of Social Care in England is set to recommend that there should be a renewed focus on alternatives to care with a major focus on kinship care. As the charity Kinship sets out its vision of what needs to change, Emma talks to its Chief Executive, Dr Lucy Peake, and to Meyrem,  about what it’s like to be a kinship carer.

Woman's Hour delves into the archive to remember Madeleine Albright, the first US Secretary of State. 

As the Taliban  announces girls will not be allowed to attend secondary school, we hear the voices of girls heartbroken by the decision and the reaction of Malala Yousafzai.  

Why don't women in period dramas have body hair? TV shows go to huge lengths with their sets, costumes and wigs to make you feel like you’re looking back at the past but why – given hair removal is a fairly modern development - is body hair so rarely seen? Historian, Dr Marissa C Rhodes joins Emma to discuss.


Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Alison Carter  

Photo Credit:  Jan Versweyveld.

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