Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We continue our series Family Secrets. Listener Melanie explains why she finally went to the police to reveal her family secret after 37 years.

There's global attention on President Trump’s trip to India – a guest of Prime Minister Modi of the Hindu Nationalist BJP. This morning he'll be making a speech at a cricket stadium in Gujarrat. Meanwhile- hundreds of women are said to be on hunger strike in Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country, protesting about new Citizenship laws. Salman, Divya Arya, a Women’s Affairs journalist at the BBC in India, gives us the background to the protests which have been going on for some time.

Plus Majella works in the local chip shop in a small town in Northern Ireland with her alcohol-dependent mother. She’s the subject of Michelle Gallen’s first novel ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ . She talks to Jane about the inspiration behind it.

Presented Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Michelle Gallen

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0:00.0	Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:06.8	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:11.8	telly we share what we've been watching
0:14.0	Fladiated.
0:16.0	Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:19.0	Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:21.0	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:25.0	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to
0:32.1	watch night after night the flicking through the endless
0:36.6	searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the
0:41.6	telly we share what we've been watching.
0:43.7	Cladie Aide!
0:45.7	Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.
0:48.2	Lovely.
0:49.0	Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.
0:51.2	And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less
0:54.7	searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds this is the
1:00.4	Woman's hour podcast and we're talking about India on the program as well this morning.
1:04.8	Also today, I know we often talk about books and often I say I've really enjoyed something.
1:09.6	This is a book I really hope lots and lots of people read.
1:12.2	It's a fantastic novel about a young
1:14.5	woman's life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles it's called Big Girl
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