France: Far right hopes to make history in snap poll

France votes today in the first of two rounds of parliamentary elections. The far-right, anti-immigration National Rally hopes to assume power for the first time. We hear from Rokhaya Diallo, a French journalist, commentator and a race activist.

Also in this hour, two former US servicewomen Karla Lehman and Mona McGuire, who were in a same sex relationship tell the story of their arrest and "unhonourable discharge" from the army in the late eighties.

And, Voice of Baceprot, an Indonesian heavy metal girl band, plays at Glastonbury - Europe's biggest music festival.

Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and Peter Neumann Professor of Security Studies at the War Studies Department at Kings College, London.

(Photo: People queuing to vote in the first round of French parliamentary elections at a polling station in Tulle, France. Credit: Stéphanie Lecocq)