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Gabriella Gillespie, now 50, grew up in Wales and now lives in Bristol. Her Yemeni father was jailed for the man-slaughter of her British mother when she was six. On his release, he sent three of his daughters to Yemen for a 'holiday'. The fourth one stayed in the UK where she was doing a nursing course. In Yemen, the sisters were sold off in marriage. First to wed was Gabriella's sister Yasmin, then just 14, who was forcibly taken by a man a lot older.聽 Ismahan, 17, killed herself on her wedding day rather than wed an old man. Gabriella herself was married twice, first of at the age of 15 but her husband聽 died after just a few weeks and聽 then her father arranged聽 a second marriage to a much older man. It was a聽 very unhappy and violent relationship. After 17 years, she fled to the British Embassy with her five children. Eventually she was flown home to the UK in 1992 with her family. She has now written a memoir called 鈥淎 Father's Betrayal鈥�. Jenni Murray speaks to Gabriella about her life.

School meals were first introduced in the UK in 1906, with the Education (Provision of Meals) Act, which allowed schools to provide food for their pupils for the first time. The Act was a reflection on contemporary concerns about public health, and particularly the health of children 鈥� concerns which linger today. As of next month all infant school aged children in England will receive free school meals, and in January the government around school food are due to change. Dr Patricia Mucavele is the Head of Nutrition at and helped put together those standards. She joins Jenni, along with Dr Kate Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Social History and Social Policy at the University of Kent, to discuss the history of school food and the upcoming changes.聽 聽

Does 'The One' exist? Our soulmate - the person that we will love forever. Journalist Julie Burchill recently wrote about never finding 'The One' - even though she has been with her husband for nearly 20 years and adores him, she says if they broke up she would move on. As she says: 鈥淒o I think that we would each be alone for ever mooing in the wilderness, because we鈥檇 lost The One? Not on your nelly!鈥澛� But some people do believe in soulmates - so is there someone perfect out there for everyone? Jenni Murray speaks to writer and lecturer Sherry Ashworth and Eleanor Mills, Editorial Director of the Sunday Times.

Lea DeLaria gave us the critically acclaimed Jazz reinventions of 'The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd' and Blondie's 'Call Me' and soon there will be a new look at one of pop music's most enduring singer songwriters, David Bowie. 聽Lea will soon be releasing her fifth album featuring cover versions of his songs but with her twist as a jazz singer.聽 She is also working on the third series of Orange is the New Black to be broadcast next year on Netflix. This is the story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting money for her drug-dealing girlfriend. 聽Lea plays Big Boo, one of the inmates in the prison. Jenni Murray speaks to Lea about her new album and her successful part in Orange is the New Black.