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Radio 4. My My castaway this week is the writer and campaigner Jasvinda Sengera.

She has counseled government and travelled widely advising on how to put a stop to forced marriage and so-called

honor violence. She speaks powerfully and she speaks from experience. Brought up in Darby, her

dad, a Sikh, worked at the local foundry and enjoyed a few of the local traditions with it.

He had an allotment and shared the odd pint with friends.

However, at 14, Jazwinder was shown a picture of the stranger thousands of miles away that she was to marry, and in the face of constant intimidation, she fled her family, chose her own husbands, and gained a first-class degree.

Her books have shone a piercing light on the veiled world of shame, brutality and coercion

that some young women endure, whilst the pioneering charity she set up and runs offers refuge and practical help.

She says my life has had to take paths where responsibility was the key thing.

Now I'm at a point in my life where I'm more content than I've ever been.

I've reconciled the disownment.

So, uh, jazzfinder, your work as a campaign has been recognized by a number of awards it should be said and

Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year that was in 2010 Pride of Britain Award in 2009

Women of the Year Award in 2007 I'm sure they're all important to you but I'm wondering

if there's one that stands out

particularly. For me the one that stands out more than any of them would be the

Pride of Britain Award because I always make the point I was born here in England. England is my home and what

Britain gives you is independence and freedom and to be recognized as being

part of Britain is extremely important to me.

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