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Ray and Lois Winstone
Ray and Lois Winstone play father and daughter in the new film "Fathers of Girls". Jenni talks to them about the film and their relationship.
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Lisa Robinson
Lisa Robinson got so sick of the sexist abuse she suffered while on a train that she laid down in front of it. She tells Jenni why & what she hoped to achieve
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East & West German Women
How are East/West German women faring since the Berlin Wall came down? Jenni discusses with Professor Jutta Allmendinger, author of “Women on the March,” & Christin Hess, Bath University
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Listener Feedback on Housework
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Margaret Clitherow
In 1586 Margaret Clitherow, from York, was just 33 when she was executed for harbouring Catholic priests. Jenni discusses her with Michael Questier, author of ‘The Trial of Margaret Clitherow’
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Ray and Lois Winstone
In the film Fathers of Girls, Ray Winstone plays a solicitor, Frank, whose world is torn apart as the daughter he has raised alone after the death of her mother during childbirth, dies in mysterious circumstances after leaving home to go to university. There’s an added element to the story; his daughter on-screen is played by his real life daughter Lois Winstone.
The film Fathers of Girls is out in the UK on the 19th Nov, Certificate 15. -
East and West German Women
When the Berlin wall came down it was thought that East German women would lose out. Their jobs were under threat, as well as the maternity and child-care benefits that Communism had given them. Now, over twenty years on, it seems they are faring rather well – better in fact than their West German sisters. East German women are better-educated and more mobile than women brought up in the West. West German women earn 24% less than men, the pay gap in the East is only 6%. Some of Germany’s most powerful women are from the east – including The Chancellor, Angela Merkel. So why are East German women doing so well? Jenni is joined by West German born Professor Jutta Allmendinger, the author of “Women on the March,” a survey on young German women’s attitudes and by East German born Christin Hess from Bath University.
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Lisa Robinson
Lisa Robinson got so sick of the sexist abuse she suffered while on a train that she decided to take matters into her own hands. She was shouted at and ridiculed by a gang of thirty football supporters. Getting no help from officials on the train she decided to stage her own protest by laying down in front of the train so it couldn’t pull out of the station. She joins Jenni to explain what happened and what she hoped to achieve.
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Margaret Clitherow
In 1586 Margaret Clitherow, from York, was just 33 when she was executed for harbouring Catholic priests. She died in the most cruel of fashions – crushed to death under heavy stones. A new book suggests that amidst the turmoil of the period, Margaret who was canonized forty years ago, wasn’t a simple innocent, but a committed religious agitator. Jenni is joined by Michael Questier, author of ‘The Trial of Margaret Clitherow’
The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England by Peter Lake and Michael Questier is published by Continuum due out March 2011. -
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BBC Radio 4Fri 19 Nov 2010 10:00 BBC Radio 4
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