Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.
Family Secrets, Melanie tells her story. Plus debut novelist Michelle Gallen talks about the inspiration behind "Big Girl, Small Town".
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鈥檚 trip to India 鈥� 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鈥檚 Affairs journalist at the 麻豆社 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鈥檚 the subject of Michelle Gallen鈥檚 first novel 鈥楤ig Girl, Small Town鈥� . She talks to Jane about the inspiration behind it.
Presented Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Michelle Gallen
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