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Woman's Hour - 22/07/2010

Presented by Jane Garvey. How should children be taught to read? The Taylor Maids, reformed after fifty years, trafficked women and the Olympics, and how to run an allotment.

Presented by Jane Garvey. In 1940, Alec Bristow published the wartime classic "How to Run an Allotment, his daughter Jane talks about the legacy of the book. Teaching children to read - are synthetic phonics the only way? Back in the 1950s, two schoolfriends Jackie Hockridge and Terry Cryer formed The Taylor Maids, they tell Jane about why they've reformed for Edinburgh and trafficked women and the Olympics - how big a problem is it likely to be?

  • Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 10:00AM Thu, 22 Jul 2010
  • Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
  • First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 10:00AM Thu, 22 Jul 2010
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  • Duration 45 minutes

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