Emily Ratajkowski, Republicanism in Barbados, Josephine Baker

Yesterday was big news for the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados, as it cuts ties with the British Crown to become a republic. The country has sworn in its first president - Dame Sandra Mason. Celestina Olulade, a reporter for BBC World Service, joins Emma from Barbados to explore how significant this change is for Barbardian women. Emily Ratajkowski is an American model, actress, entrepreneur, now writer. She rocketed to world fame aged 21 when she took part in Robin Thicke’s infamous music video, Blurred Lines. At the time Emily argued that the provocative display of her body represented a form of feminist empowerment. In her first book, My Body, she argues something more nuanced. She joins Emma. What lengths have you gone to for something you believe in? 89-year-old barrister Margaret Owen OBE recently embarked on a 6-day hunger strike to raise awareness of the case of British-Iranian detainee Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe. Margaret’s protest followed the 21-day hunger strike by Nazanin’s husband Richard Ratcliffe. She joins Emma to talk about the experience and what she wanted to achieve. American-born French singer, dancer and spy Josephine Baker is going to be the first black woman to be immortalised in the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris. She broke boundaries in the 1930s with performances mocking colonialism and became an international star. She was also a resistance fighter for France during World War II and had a role in the civil rights movement in the US. She's just the sixth woman to join the 80 odd great national figures already interred. Research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Adjoa Osei who studies Afro-Latin women modernists joins Emma. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore