BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The play Lotus Beauty, Women in Agriculture & America’s Sterilisation policy

The play Lotus Beauty exploring the lives of south Asian women, Daughters of the Soil exhibition and the history of the forced sterilisation of poor black women in the USThe play Lotus Beauty set in a beauty salon in Southall tells the story of the Punjabi immigrant women it serves where culture meets the desire to fit in. The beauty salon is a backdrop for exploring themes such as domestic abuse, suicide, and a desperation for belonging.

In 1973, two Black girls - Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf - were sterilised without their knowledge in Alabama by a government funded organisation. The summer of that year, the Relf girls sued the government agencies and individuals responsible for their sterilisation. By 1979, the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare was ordered to establish new guidelines for the government’s sterilisation policy.

We hear from the documentary photographer Joanne Coates who has a new photography exhibition and book Daughters of the Soil looking at the role of women in farming . This work is a culmination of a year’s research where she explored the role of women in agriculture in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.

The poet Charly Cox takes us through her latest collection inspired by a piece of research by the dating website Plenty of Fish. It found that 51% of people have secretly brought a friend along on a date with them. Charly tells us about her own experience and some of the stories behind the eight poems she has written about blind dates and dating.

charlycox1 itsanitarani I got a taxi home from Birmingham city centre once with my 2 young sons. I was 7m Pregnant I finished up sending the boys into the house whilst we sat and had a long talk about the responsibility of parenthood as he was about to become a dad and was worried how he would manage.

poojghai Kiran_Landa_ Yes art is an inclusive way of communities representing and sharing stories of identity... issues of domestic abuse, suicide and ideas of belonging come up in our creative projects such as HerSay in Greater Manchester. There's room for authentic storytelling by Directors & cast!

charlycox1 A friend had her friend come with her on her first ever date. Invited herself, still doing it 40 years later. We were having lunch with a gay friend and she invited herself on holiday with him.

Dolen Wow, an American with a book to sell. Congratulations on getting onto WH. The producers will absolutely love you.

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