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

Published: March 24, 2022, 11:27 a.m.

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 \u2013 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\u2019s 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\u2019s the best way of looking after children who can no longer stay with their birth parents when a family breaks down? Woman\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019re looking back at the past but why \u2013 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\nProducer: Alison Carter

Photo Credit: Jan Versweyveld.