WHNews: Lesbian wives; Deborah Ellis; Female characters in drama; Helen Fielding

On Saturday 29th March the first same sex marriage ceremonies will take place in England & Wales. Couples will have the right to legally refer to their spouse as "husband" or "wife". How comfortable will lesbians be with calling their spouse wife? The Canadian author & peace activist, Deborah Ellis, visited refugee camps in Pakistan to talk to women and children who had fled the Taliban, and turned those experiences into novels for children. Her latest book, My Name is Parvana, tells the story of a young girl in post-Taliban Afghanistan. BBC Writers Room script reader and theatre critic Sally Stott & Farah Abushwesher, founder of the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum on writing decent female characters. And as part of Radio 4's Character Invasion Helen Fielding talks about Bridget Jones. Caz Graham meets a former lumberjill, Edna Holland and Sarah Bell from the Forestry Commission.
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