Woman's Hour: News, Politics, Culture

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Recent episodes (4)

• 24 November 2009 with Jane Garvey

  Tue, 24 Nov 09

  Duration:
  44 mins

  Why don't children do chores today? Jane talks to Annette Mountford from Family Links and writer and mother of four Lucy Cavendish. A discussion about the national Chlamydia screeing programme and whether it has been set up properly. An interview with biographer Diana Souhami about Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, the eccentric and indomitable couple who lived in France during two world wars. Has the dinner party died or just transformed? Jane talks to chef Angela Hartnett and columnist Liz Hunt.

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• WHNews:23rdNovember2009

  Mon, 23 Nov 09

  Duration:
  43 mins

  The Iraq War Inquiry begins on Tuesday 24th November. Rose Gentle speaks about her son Gordon, a Royal Highland Fusilier who was killed in Iraq aged 19 and about her campaign for the inquiry; Dame Margot Fonteyn: Jane is joined by Anne-Marie Duff, the BAFTA nominated Shameless actor who is playing the title role in a forthcoming BBC Four film about the dancer, and Meredith Daneman, a former student at the Royal Ballet School and Margot Fonteyn’s biographer; Bras - why are 80% of us wearing the wrong size? Registering the millions of unofficial children across the world: The children’s charity Plan International has just completed a five year campaign for Universal Birth Registration, managing to register 40m children who did not exist, why is this so important?

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• Woman's Hour 20 Nov 09

  Fri, 20 Nov 09

  Duration:
  42 mins

  with Jenni Murray: Rights for cohabiting couples - would a cohabitation law 'retard the emancipation of women' as Baroness Deech said in a lecture this week, or protect women in such relationships? Inspirational women: the artist Charlotte Newson appeals for your photos to use in a tribute to the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Rachel Crolla, a teacher from Bradford, has just become the first woman to climb to the highest point of every country in Europe. Caz Graham joins her on Scafell Pike. Grandchildlessness - the double whammy of infertility. How do you cope when your friends show off their children's children? And Australian virtuoso Genevieve Lacey talks about her love for the recorder.

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• Woman's Hour 19 Nov 2009

  Thu, 19 Nov 09

  Duration:
  39 mins

  The Mums' Vote - Why are politicians targeting mothers? Do mothers have a collective political identity? Vaira Vike-Freiberga - Former Latvian leader's bid to become EU's first president. The Washing Line - Is it time to ditch the dryer? Lizzie Mickery - On her new TV drama series, Paradox.

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