Minette Batters, Unlikely Friends, Forced Marriage Statistics

Minette Batters has been voted vice president of the National Farmer's Union. It's the first time in their 105 year history that a woman has made it on to the leadership team. She talks to Sheila McClennon about her new role. The latest Home office figures on forced marriage have been published this week - and the figures are down from last year. We'll be discussing whether they are a true reflection of the scale of forced marriage in the UK. Sheila McClennon talks to unlikely friends Natasha Engel, Labour MP for North East Derbyshire and Jillian Thomas, founder of Future Life Wealth Management about what makes a friendship work. Sheila talks to 17 year old Isata Kanneh-Mason, one of the final five pianists left in this year's BBC Young Musician of the Year competition & Jennifer Pike who won the competition in 2002 aged just 12. And on International Rare Diseases Day we'll be looking at how NHS England intends to support people with rare diseases such as Muscular Dystrophy.
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