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Poet Jackie Kay performs a new work with jazz pianist/composer Adam Fairhall called 'The Imaginary Road'. Dr Jennifer Fleetwood explores the motivations and experiences of female drug mules. She is joined by Carlotta Allum, from the charity STRETCH, who was arrested for carrying ecstasy at LA airport in 1996. As a blue plaque is erected in Chelsea to the memory of Dame Maud McCarthy [Matron-in-Chief in France during WW1], Sue Light and Professor Christine Hallett discuss her life and work and the role that nurses played on the Western Front.
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