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The singer, song writer and activist, Buffy Sainte Marie, first came to prominence as part of the 1960’s protest movement with songs like ‘Universal Soldier.’Ìý She was born on a Cree First Nation Reserve in Canada and has long campaigned for the rights of the indigenous people of the Americas – her songÌýSoldier BlueÌýis just one reflection of these concerns.Ìý Over the course of her career, Buffy’s made more than 20 albums, spent five years appearing on Sesame Street and, more recently, joined Morrissey on tour. ÌýBuffy joins Jenni to talk about her music, her campaigns and her life.

Buffy Sainte Marie will be appearing at the Brooklyn Bowl at London’s O2 on Thursday, August 13th and her album ‘Power in the Blood’ is out now..

In a new edition of ´óÏó´«Ã½2’s Horizon tonight, Michael Mosley will put himself through a battery of health tests available to people who feel perfectly well. From an expensive heart scan to a new national screening procedure to detect the earliest signs of bowel cancer, he sets out to discover which if any of the tests are ‘worth doing’, or whether they may cause unnecessary stress, treatment and Ìýexpense. To discuss the issues surrounding health screening, and particularly breast cancer screening, Jenni is joined by Dr Iona Heath, former President of the Royal College of GPs, and by Dr Anne Mackie, the Director of the National Screening Committee.

´óÏó´«Ã½2’s Horizon, is on ´óÏó´«Ã½ 2 tonight at 8pm

Suzi Godson, the relationships columnist for The Times has been speaking to men from their twenties to their eighties.Ìý In a number of interviews over the summer sheÌý hears about the male experience of prenatal classes, miscarriage and birth, being a single parent and being an absent father not by choice.Ìý She hears about gay marriage and arranged marriage, the impact of divorce, retirement, and widowhood,Ìý how men deal with trying to find a balance between working life and family life, Ìýand about what makes a long and happy relationship.Ìý
Today we hear from Max, from Preston who works as a Golf Course Groundsman. ÌýHe’sÌý the father of a six year old son and an eight year old daughter. Even though he and his wife knew they wanted children and had discussed starting a family, when his wife went into labour the reality of impending fatherhood came as a shock

We’re three weeks in to our summer reading season which focuses on the Queens of Crime, the female detective writers who were prolific between the two wars. This week we look at Margery Allingham, the Essex writer who created the bespectacled sleuth Albert Campion.

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