Podcasts Other Woman's Hour Family Secrets. Author Michelle Gallen. Women protesting in India.

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

Published: Feb. 24, 2020, 12:36 p.m.

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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\\u2019s trip to India \\u2013 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\\u2019s 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\\u2019s the subject of Michelle Gallen\\u2019s first novel \\u2018Big Girl, Small Town\\u2019 . She talks to Jane about the inspiration behind it.

Presented Jane Garvey\\nProducer Beverley Purcell

Guest; Michelle Gallen

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