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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour:  Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle,  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Sean O'Neill on his late daughter's ME

Weekend Woman's Hour:  Amara Okereke as Eliza Doolittle,  Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Sean O'Neill on his late daughter's ME

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A recent landmark report reveals 75% of women of colour have experienced racism at work.

Who are the women in agriculture across Northumberland and the Scottish Borders? The documentary photographer Joanne Coates and arable farmer, Christina Willet on women in farming.

Part of our exclusive Woman’s Hour interview with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. She reveals the full story of her imprisonment in Iran to Emma Barnett. Nazanin explains how she survived solitary confinement, how the love of her daughter kept her alive.

Anita Rani speaks to documentary photographer Joanne Coates about her exhibition and book 'Daughters of the Soil' looking at the role of women in farming; a culmination of a year’s research where she explored the role of women in agriculture in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. We also speak to arable farmer, Christina Willet, who farms with her son in Essex. 

This month, the health secretary announced a new plan to tackle ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in England. A listen back to our interview with Sean O’Neill, a senior writer for the Times, whose eldest daughter Maeve, passed away last October at the age of 27, after suffering from ME since she was a teenager. 

A recent landmark report called ‘Broken Ladders’ has revealed 75% of women of colour have experienced racism at work, 27% having suffered racial slurs and 61% report changing themselves to fit in. Produced by the Fawcett Society and the Runnymede Trust, ‘Broken Ladders’ explores and documents the experiences of 2,000 women of colour in workplaces across the UK, showing the entrenched racism that women of colour endure throughout their careers. Zaimal Azad, senior campaigns officer at the Fawcett Society spoke to Jessica Creighton.

We speak to and hear a live performance from Amara Okereke who has taken on the role of a life time as Eliza Dpolittle in My Fair Lady. Amara, who is 25 has been called 'the new face of British theatre' and has been performing at The Coliseum in London.

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Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

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