As two black British women writers \u2013 Bernadine Evaristo and Reni Eddo-Lodge - top the UK fiction and non-fiction book charts for the first time, Jane asks bestselling author of Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams and Sharmaine Lovegrove founder of Dialogue Books, what publishing houses should be doing to make the trend last. The hashtag #publishingpaidme has shown that in many cases globally black women were paid smaller advances than their white counterparts \u2013 could we now see a step-change in the way the publishing industry treats black writers and readers?
Iranian film maker Mina Keshavarz on her new documentary The Art of Living in Danger \u2013 which follows female lawyers in Iran campaigning to make domestic violence illegal. Mina also talks about her grandmother who\u2019d taken her own life after suffering domestic abuse \u2013 and how she inspired the film.
In the latest instalment of our series Troupers we speak to Calina Toqir, a well-known figure in Glasgow\u2019s Roma community, brought to our attention by the Govanhill Housing Trust.
This week Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will apparently be setting out plans for pupils in England to attend Summer Schools after abandoning plans to get all primary pupils back to school for a month before the summer break. Will they reach the pupils who really need them? Susannah Hardyman is chief executive of the education charity Action Tutoring; Natalie Perera is executive director at the Education Policy Institute, an independent research charity; and Dave McPartlin is headteacher of Flakefleet Primary in Lancs - how do they think it could work?
Presented by Jane Garvey\nProduced by Jane Thurlow
Interviewed guest: Candice Carty-Williams\nInterviewed guest: Mina Keshavarz\nInterviewed guest: Calina Toqir\nInterviewed guest: Susannah Hardyman\nInterviewed guest: Natalie Perera\nInterviewed guest: Dave McPartlin