Woman's Hour
Magazine programme featuring topical discussion and drama serials
Woman's Hour - 01/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Julian Fellowes and Jenny Uglow discuss life above and below stairs and Ivan Day cooks food fit for a society dinner. Including drama: My Mad Grandad.
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Woman's Hour - 01/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Interpreter II. Anjum Malik's second series about a freelance translator. 5/5: Nina has a tense confrontation with Mr Mansood.
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Woman's Hour - 01/02/2010
With Jane Garvey. Winning Women's Votes: parental rights and employment, girls and football in Kenya, and the chinese author Xinran on her new book.
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Woman's Hour - 01/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp. From the Toilette to the Bagnio.
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Woman's Hour - 01/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Helena Bonham Carter on playing the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland, Felicity Aston on leading a trek to the South Pole and Icelandic families in crisis.
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Woman's Hour - 01/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: What I Think of My Husband. Stephen Wakelam's account of the relationship between Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 01/04/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including children and ballroom dancing, G20 and women, the relaunch of The Lady magazine and Manju Kapur on her new novel. Plus drama: Daunt and Dervish.
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Woman's Hour - 01/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Who do you prefer, Robert Redford or Paul Newman?
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Woman's Hour - 01/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring a discussion on the pros and cons of women bishops in the Church of England. Also includes drama: An Expert in Murder (9/10).
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Woman's Hour - 01/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Carol Ann Duffy gives her first interview as Poet Laureate.
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Woman's Hour - 01/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Blood in the Bridal Shop. Comedy by Nancy Harris and Louise Ramsden, set before a wedding, with each episode from a different viewpoint. 5/5: Rose.
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Woman's Hour - 01/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Escala, Honey Bee SOS, Hanan Al-Shaykh, Jane Zito, Susan Boyle and media coverage of women on TV.
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Woman's Hour - 01/06/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including the UK treatment of gay and lesbian asylum seekers, poet Fleur Adcock, and a performing arts scheme in South Africa which helps street children.
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Woman's Hour - 01/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson (12/15).
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Woman's Hour - 01/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Sarah Dunant and cooking with sustainable fish. Including drama: Sacred Hearts.
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Woman's Hour - 01/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Karen Liebreich on solving the mystery of a letter in a bottle; the oceanographer Sylvia Earle on a career beneath the waves plus morning sickness.
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Woman's Hour - 01/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 3/10: 50,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 01/08/2008
With Jane Garvey. Past Olympians share their experiences of the Games and what happens to women claiming asylum after being trafficked into the UK.
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Woman's Hour - 01/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Lorraine Kelly discusses her rise to the status of 'queen of daytime TV', and the experiences that have shaped her.
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Woman's Hour - 01/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including World War II child evacuees' experiences; having a disabled sibling; a Child Trust Fund update. Plus drama: Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella.
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Woman's Hour - 01/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. From Alexis Colby to Catwoman - what makes a female baddie? Actress Claire Skinner on her new play 'Deathtrap'.
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Woman's Hour - 01/10/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: Whose Sari Now. Rani Moorthy's tale of human relationships, set in a sari shop. 1/5: The Gujarati Way.
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Woman's Hour - 01/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Novelist Ali Smith talks about her new book of short stories, The First Person and Other Stories.
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Woman's Hour - 01/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including: why are children's clothes so gendered? Are vulnerable children better off in care? And Lauren Luke gives a make-up lesson. Plus drama: Craven.
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Woman's Hour - 01/10/2010
With Jenni Murray. Cumberland artist Sheila Fell; Unwanted facial hair; do widowers often attract female attention?
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Woman's Hour - 01/11/2007
Including drama: Island Blue. Gerda Stevenson's tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 01/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Over 50 and HIV-positive, a father's story of sons in a war zone, the merits of running versus walking and the rising hemline.
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Woman's Hour - 01/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including the Monday Panel with columnist Rachel Johnson, Emma Soames of Saga Magazine and social entrepreneur Lord Mawson.
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Woman's Hour - 01/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Annie Lennox on AIDS in South Africa, commemorating 90 years since Nancy Astor took her seat in the House of Commons, and attitudes to death in Japan.
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Woman's Hour - 01/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. The renaissance of sherry drinking. Should former sex offenders be able to adopt children? Blogging in Iran, Pakistani Asia Bibi facing a death sentence.
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Woman's Hour - 02/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 3/5: And Is There Honey Still for Tea?
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Woman's Hour - 02/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Poet Maura Dooley explains to Jenni the sources of her inspiration.
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Woman's Hour - 02/02/2009
With Jane Garvey. Meryl Streep discusses her latest role as a nun in the film 'Doubt'.
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Woman's Hour - 02/02/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Nanci Griffith on her new album, Winter Olympics hopeful Chemmy Alcott, surviving the Khmer Rouge, and are older women riskier drivers?
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Woman's Hour - 02/03/2007
With Martha Kearney, including the drama Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth in another scandalous romp. Three deaths, one birth and two endings.
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Woman's Hour - 02/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Features reports on opera singer Angela Gheorghiu; Fiona Millar on the Blair years, and Twitter.
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Woman's Hour - 02/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Carly Simon on her new album Never Been Gone, Julianne Moore on her new film Chloe and women in the devolved assemblies.
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Woman's Hour - 02/04/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama Captain Starlight's Apprentice, by Katherine Heyman. Rose begins to have a series of visions.
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Woman's Hour - 02/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: What I Think of My Husband. Stephen Wakelam's account of the relationship between Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 02/04/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including features on feminising history, women in Cuba, girls and autism, and dressing your partner. Plus drama: Daunt and Dervish, by Guy Meredith.
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Woman's Hour - 02/04/2010
Jenni Murray celebrates 150 years of fish and chips; Kay Mellor on her new TV play A Passionate Woman; the family of Alison Hargreaves on her son's attempt at K2; cousin marriage.
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Woman's Hour - 02/05/2008
With Jane Garvey. Featuring interviews with Gwyneth Paltrow and Amani Zain, presenter of the TV series Women in Black. Also includes drama: An Expert in Murder (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 02/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including a look at the latest Home Office plan to cut knife crime, and music from folk singer Dawn Landes. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. (6/10).
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Woman's Hour - 02/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. A debate about adult entertainment adverts in job centres. American author Maureen Gibbon on why she wanted to meet with a rapist. Music from Sandi Thom.
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Woman's Hour - 02/07/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including drama: Five Days in July. Series of short plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005. 1/5: Live8 and Gleneagles.
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Woman's Hour - 02/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson (13/15).
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Woman's Hour - 02/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing the history and power of the hunger strike, appropriate dress for hot weather, headaches and badly-behaved fictional characters.
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Woman's Hour - 02/07/2010
With Jenni Murray. Sarah Palin has spoken about an 'emerging, conservative feminist identity' - what does she mean? Dame Nancy Rothwell. Part-time marriage.
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Woman's Hour - 02/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 4/10: 100,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 02/08/2010
Bidisha talks to the artist and taxidermist Polly Morgan; the government announce new regulations on sex industry ads; Caroline Chocolate Drops play live.
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Woman's Hour - 02/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including an interview with crime writer PD James.
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Woman's Hour - 02/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Bananarama, author Sadie Jones, women and policing, and the politics of high heels in the workplace. Plus drama Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella.
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Woman's Hour - 02/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Dame Ellen MacArthur on the launch of her Foundation; is there a global backlash against homebirths?; and Andrea Newman on 'Bouquet of Barbed Wire'.
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Woman's Hour - 02/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Whose Sari Now. Rani Moorthy's tale of human relationships, set in a sari shop. 2/5: The Bombay Version.
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Woman's Hour - 02/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Do female world leaders act differently in times of crisis? Sheila is joined by lecturer Mark Almond and BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall.
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Woman's Hour - 02/11/2007
Including drama: Island Blue. Gerda Stevenson's tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 02/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Martine McCutcheon, donor transplants, the care crisis following the Baby P case, and poetry from Grace Nichols. Plus drama: Singleparentpals.com.
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Woman's Hour - 02/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Maureen Lipman on her new collection of monologues, civil partnership v marriage - why the difference? and how to survive parents' evening.
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Woman's Hour - 02/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Acclaimed actress Tilda Swinton talks about her latest role in the film Julia, in which she plays an alcoholic who tries to extort money by using a young boy as bait.
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Woman's Hour - 02/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including equality overload?; the history of mixed race relationships in post war Britain; revolutionary women; post partum psychosis and suicide.
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Woman's Hour - 02/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. The politics of employing a nanny, and what judgements we make about other people's childcare choices.
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Woman's Hour - 03/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 4/5: And Is There Honey Still for Tea?
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Woman's Hour - 03/01/2011
Jane Garvey presents: Gardener's World's Carol Klein on 'Life in a Cottage Garden', boardroom quotas for women, pig keeping, Susan Maushart on cutting her family's screentime.
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Woman's Hour - 03/02/2009
With Jane Garvey. Were women more equal under Communism? Jane discusses gender equality in the Czech Republic with the journalist Jana Ciglerova and Prof Petr Pavlik.
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Woman's Hour - 03/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including author Siri Hustvedt, equal pay and women in bright clothes.
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Woman's Hour - 03/03/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
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Woman's Hour - 03/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 1/5: Keep the Home Fires Burning.
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Woman's Hour - 03/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Chef Heston Blumenthal talks about creating dishes such as Trojan Hog with edible intestines and ejaculating cakes.
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Woman's Hour - 03/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. Kathryn Flett and Amy Poon discuss the commercialisation of divorce, Ellie Goulding performs live, and childbirth: whose risk is it?
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Woman's Hour - 03/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: What I Think of My Husband. Stephen Wakelam's account of the relationship between Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 03/04/2009
With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: Daunt and Dervish. Comic thriller by Guy Meredith, set in 1956. Mrs Mackie chooses a rather awkward time to pay a visit.
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Woman's Hour - 03/05/2010
On the verge of her 60th birthday, Jenni Murray takes a look at the differences between the Baby Boomers and the 60-year-old women of previous generations.
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Woman's Hour - 03/06/2008
With Jenni Murray, including a report on plastic surgery. Plus the drama Jane and Prudence, Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships.
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Woman's Hour - 03/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. A special programme dedicated to the life and influence of the writer George Eliot.
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Woman's Hour - 03/06/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Jekka McVicar on cultivating and cooking with herbs, and the appeal of the weepie.
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Woman's Hour - 03/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including drama: Five Days in July. Series of short plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005. 2/5: Paul and Ayeesha.
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Woman's Hour - 03/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Way We Live Right Now, Anthony Trollope's satirical novel updated by Jonathan Myerson. 14/15. Where can Ghassan Mehmoud run?
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Woman's Hour - 03/08/2009
With Sheila McClennon. Discussing the politics of topless sunbathing, Charlotte Bronte and her novel Villette, new research on male circumcision and Europe's first 'home prison'.
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Woman's Hour - 03/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill on singing Mahler.
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Woman's Hour - 03/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the drama The Lover. 1/5. Linda Marshall Griffiths' dramatisation of Marguerite Duras' semi-autobiographical novel set in 1930s Vietnam.
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Woman's Hour - 03/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Actress Keira Knightley talks about her new role in The Duchess. She plays Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.
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Woman's Hour - 03/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Brooke Kinsella on the murder of her brother Ben, Brigitte Bardot and the Paparazzi, and should children be taught to read before they start school?
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Woman's Hour - 03/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Customising school uniforms, new book Delusions of Gender which attacks pseudoscientific claims about gender differences, and all-woman choir DaleDiva.
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Woman's Hour - 03/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Whose Sari Now. Rani Moorthy's tale of human relationships, set in a sari shop. 3/5: The Madrassi Version.
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Woman's Hour - 03/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Emma Thompson discusses her role as Lady Marchmain in the new film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
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Woman's Hour - 03/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. TV presenter Fern Britton talks about her successful career in television, her battle with depression, her body image and the controversial gastric band.
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Woman's Hour - 03/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including comedian Miranda Hart on her new sitcom, snooker champion Allison Fisher, dressing female engineers and stories from the Eton Memorial School in Ypres.
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Woman's Hour - 03/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Joan Rivers on her film A Piece of Work. News on the US Mid Term elections, Dolphin expert Janet Mann, author Michael Holroyd on his new book.
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Woman's Hour - 03/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (11/20).
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Woman's Hour - 03/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Do the children of alcoholic parents get enough support? Jenni is joined by Lauren Booth and Tracey Smith from the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.
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Woman's Hour - 03/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including a phone-in with Delia Smith about Christmas catering - cooking and planning ahead. Plus the drama Our Mutual Friend.
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Woman's Hour - 03/12/2010
On Woman's Hour - is it right to drop your schoolchild off at a student demo? The writer Brendan O'Neill claims some parents reliving their own days of youthful radicalism.
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Woman's Hour - 04/01/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 5/5: And Is There Honey Still for Tea?
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Woman's Hour - 04/01/2010
Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey: Including: Ruthie Henshall and Who's Who?, Liberia update, Men redundancy and a new role of child care.
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Woman's Hour - 04/01/2011
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including the Victorians' fascination with murder, the rise of the countrywoman entrepreneur, and can men and women just be good friends?
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Woman's Hour - 04/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Daunt and Dervish. Another adventure for Guy Meredith's female private eyes, set in 1953 (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 04/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including comedian Juliet Stevenson, women builders, Lady Jane Grey and her sisters and listener feedback on home sewing.
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Woman's Hour - 04/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Natasha Walter on her new book, Living Dolls; Margaret Forster on grandparents; solitary pleasures: the joy of being alone.
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Woman's Hour - 04/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 2/5: Keep the Home Fires Burning.
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Woman's Hour - 04/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including women who pay for sex, Irma Kurtz, the government summit on women and the recession and access to osteoperosis drugs.
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Woman's Hour - 04/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Pauline Prescott on her life with John, Rose Tremain on her new novel Trespass and concerns for young people in custody.
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Woman's Hour - 04/04/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: What I Think of My Husband. Stephen Wakelam's account of the relationship between Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 04/05/2009
With Sheila McClennon. A special programme focussing on family feuds. What are the reasons for family estrangement?
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Woman's Hour - 04/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Interviews with actress Gemma Arterton and author Sarita Mandanna. Why divorce is rising amongst twentysomethings, and would you share your garden?
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Woman's Hour - 04/06/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: No Nightingales No Snakes: Short stories by Maeve Binchy. 1/5. The Night the People Came over for Something That Was No Trouble.
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Woman's Hour - 04/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring reaction in France to a marriage annulment and poet Wendy Cope. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's comedy of rural relationships (8/10).
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Woman's Hour - 04/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Talking to Peter Lawrence about his missing daughter. Plus Sarah Waters on her new novel and Professor Jean Seaton and DJ Taylor discuss George Orwell's women.
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Woman's Hour - 04/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Girls in gangs. Bach's librettist - Marianne von Ziegler. The Shed Men of Australia. Is dropping a friend harder than dumping a partner?
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Woman's Hour - 04/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including drama: Five Days in July. Series of short plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005. 3/5: Zipper and Mary.
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Woman's Hour - 04/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson (15/15).
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Woman's Hour - 04/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Catherine Tate discusses her new role in David Eldridge's Under the Blue Sky
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Woman's Hour - 04/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including why are we so fascinated with the idea of pregnant men; Heather Angel, wildlife photographer; and parental rights for same lesbian couples.
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Woman's Hour - 04/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Dr Shirley Sherwood on her life's passion for plants in pictures, plus describing someone as a 'dyke' - can it ever be inoffensive?
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Woman's Hour - 04/09/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including the drama The Lover. 2/5. The lovers must keep their affair secret from their families.
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Woman's Hour - 04/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Research suggests that many of us regard pets as bona fide family members. We’ll be exploring the way we now see what some would rather call ‘companion animals’.
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Woman's Hour - 04/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 10 - Tom and Stella.
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Woman's Hour - 04/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Whose Sari Now. Rani Moorthy's tale of human relationships, set in a sari shop. 4/5: The Bengali Version.
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Woman's Hour - 04/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Cyndi Lauper on her new album of blues music, families after divorce, Helen Castor on Medieval Queens and we discuss how being wrong is often right.
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Woman's Hour - 04/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Can your sexual orientation hinder your success at work? Jane talks to Dr Ashley Steel and Ruth Hunt from the lobbying group working for lesbian and gay equality, Stonewall.
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Woman's Hour - 04/11/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Serena Williams, the dressing table, husbands and wives who work together, new radio soap in Afghanistan. Plus drama: Singleparentpals.com.
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Woman's Hour - 04/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. The actress Lesley Manville on her latest film 'Another Year', and racial barriers to adoption - is it time they were removed?
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Woman's Hour - 04/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (12/20).
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Woman's Hour - 04/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. What is in the Queen's Speech 2008 for women? Jenni is joined by political reporter Joanna Shinn, Katherine Rake of the Fawcett Society and Jean Eaglesham of the Financial Times
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Woman's Hour - 05/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Jane is joined by a panel of guests to talk about 2009.
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Woman's Hour - 05/01/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Rose Cholmondeley on her love of Chopin, Maya Fiennes on Kundalini yoga, and discrimination against Dalits in the UK?
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Woman's Hour - 05/01/2011
Jenni Murray presents a dieting special, exploring the history and business of the diet industry, with expert advice on what does and does not work.
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Woman's Hour - 05/02/2007
With Martha Kearney. Including drama: The Observations, by Jane Harris. 1/10. In 1863, a young Irish prostitute escapes her former life when she's hired as a maid.
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Woman's Hour - 05/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Author Charlotte Roche discusses her explicit debut novel, Wetlands, the story of a vulnerable 18-year-old stuck in hospital who is obsessed with the extremes of her own body.
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Woman's Hour - 05/03/2007
With Martha Kearney. Including part one of the drama The Women's Room.
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Woman's Hour - 05/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 3/5: Keep the Home Fires Burning.
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Woman's Hour - 05/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Glenys Kinnock on a life in politics and Martyn and Michelle Compton on surviving severe injury in Afghanistan.
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Woman's Hour - 05/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama Captain Starlight's Apprentice, by Katherine Heyman. Having talked her way out of prison, Jess returns home to her baby.
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Woman's Hour - 05/04/2010
What does home mean to you? Is it where you come from or where you are now? Is it bricks and mortar or something more profound? Jane Garvey and guests discuss what makes a home.
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Woman's Hour - 05/05/2008
Jane Garvey presents a women's fitness special. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence.
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Woman's Hour - 05/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit.
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Woman's Hour - 05/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. The rights and wrongs of offering sterilisation to drug addicts, the office romance, jazz singer and actress Annie Ross, and hormone related migraines.
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Woman's Hour - 05/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships, set in 1950, about two women in pursuit of happiness (9/10).
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Woman's Hour - 05/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including drama: Five Days in July. Series of plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005. 4/5. Imogen and Manjit.
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Woman's Hour - 05/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey.The actress Natascha McElhone on dealing with her husband's death; the male pill; childhood obesity; is adult nudity acceptable in front of children?
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Woman's Hour - 05/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Who would run the country if the government was all female? Fmr MP Edwina Currie, Liberal Democrat Peer Baroness Neuberger and columnist Mary Riddell join Jenni to discuss.
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Woman's Hour - 05/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Includes asking what a 'just war' means for feminists, Penelope Lively on her new novel 'Family Album', and bassoonist Karen Geoghegan on her Proms debut.
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Woman's Hour - 05/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Jean Kwok on her novel Girl in Translation, the attraction of a career as a park ranger, and what is the reality for women's rights in Afghanistan?
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Woman's Hour - 05/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the drama The Lover. 3/5. Tension mounts when the girl introduces her lover to her family.
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Woman's Hour - 05/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Golden Notebook. Doris Lessing's twentieth-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 05/10/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: Whose Sari Now. Rani Moorthy's tale of human relationships, set in a sari shop. 5/5: The Orissa Sari.
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Woman's Hour - 05/10/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including women fighting the Mafia, the history of sisters, singing from Claire Martin, and are the children of working mums less healthy? Drama: TwilightBaby.com.
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Woman's Hour - 05/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Legendary American jazz singer Sheila Jordan performs live.
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Woman's Hour - 05/11/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: A Pin to See the Peep Show. Scott Cherry's dramatisation of F Tennyson Jesse's novel inspired by a controversial murder trial of the 1920s (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 05/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. What impact will the new US president's election have on women?
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Woman's Hour - 05/11/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Sue Townsend on the latest instalment of Adrian Mole's diary; the legacy of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein; personal safety and the internet.
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Woman's Hour - 05/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Getting the best for your special needs child; novelist Polly Samson; Tragedy vs Comedy? What's the best guide to living?
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Woman's Hour - 05/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (13/20).
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Woman's Hour - 05/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Julietta Patnick, Director of the NHS Cancer Screening Programmes, joins Jenni to discuss what can be done about the 'deprivation gap' in cancer screening.
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Woman's Hour - 06/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Nurse Leah Chishugi talks about the plight of women in eastern Congo.
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Woman's Hour - 06/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including poet Sinead Morrissey, can you rebuild trust after an affair, and why do some children have difficulties learning to talk?
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Woman's Hour - 06/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. Listeners phone in with their experiences of dieting.
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Woman's Hour - 06/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Guests include author Caitlin Davies. Including drama: Daunt and Dervish. Another adventure for Guy Meredith's female private eyes, set in 1953 (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 06/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Should women in their thirties and forties envy the Baby Boomers? We ask whether the post-war generation deserve resentment or gratitude.
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Woman's Hour - 06/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including The Women's Room, the first radio dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel. 2/15. Mira finds herself pregnant.
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Woman's Hour - 06/03/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 4/5: Keep the Home Fires Burning.
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Woman's Hour - 06/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. How does one wear a headscarf stylishly? Experts offer advice.
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Woman's Hour - 06/04/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama Captain Starlight's Apprentice. Jess begins to live the life she portrayed in films, as a bushranger, to find her missing son.
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Woman's Hour - 06/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. MP Clare Short looks back at her career as a Labour minister and independent backbencher as she prepares to leave Westminster after 27 years.
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Woman's Hour - 06/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 2/5: 1918-1930: A Land Fit for Heroes?
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Woman's Hour - 06/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit.
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Woman's Hour - 06/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Whether you're proud of your toes or want to hide them away, we discuss how to keep feet healthy and looking good in summer sandals.
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Woman's Hour - 06/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: No Nightingales No Snakes: Short stories by Maeve Binchy. 3/5: Decisions at Sea.
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Woman's Hour - 06/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Featuring a look into Hillary Clinton's future, Heidi Holland discussing Robert Mugabe and the Friday Panel. Including drama: Jane and Prudence.
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Woman's Hour - 06/07/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the drama Five Days in July. Series of short plays by Mike Walker focusing on a London family during the first week of July 2005. 5/5. Zipper and Gray.
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Woman's Hour - 06/07/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing children and mobile phones and how to help parents expecting twins. Also: chatting to clarinettist Emma Johnson and writer Dubravka Ugresic.
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Woman's Hour - 06/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. What has happened to women in punk? Children's minister Sarah Teather on early years education and Brenda Blethyn on her latest film London River.
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Woman's Hour - 06/08/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 6/10: 1,000,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 06/08/2008
Jenni Murray is joined by Val McDermid to discuss lesbian fiction. Plus, should sex and relationship education be requirement in schools?
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Woman's Hour - 06/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Includes Harriet Harman on her week standing in for the prime minister, Isabelle Huppert on her new film 'Home', and folk singer Laura Marling performing live.
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Woman's Hour - 06/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. One of the world's top bagpipers plays live, the fight against middle-aged spread, and why are so many women going bankrupt?
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Woman's Hour - 06/09/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including the drama The Lover. 4/5. The love affair between a young French girl and an older Chinese millionaire is now the talk of French colonial society.
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Woman's Hour - 06/09/2010
Drew Barrymore talks to Jane Garvey about her new film. Plus, singer Kerry Ellis on her Proms in the Park debut; women and the US midterm elections; cake judge Mary Berry.
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Woman's Hour - 06/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, President of the Institute of Physics, discusses her career and what can be done to get more women interested in physics.
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Woman's Hour - 06/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Jo Brand on her memoir Look Back in Hunger, women novelists and the Man Booker Prize, and should marriage be used as a political tool?
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Woman's Hour - 06/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Jenni is joined by the choreographer Arlene Phillips. We look at the issue of vaginal atrophy and ask whether cuts to child benefit are tough but fair.
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Woman's Hour - 06/11/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: A Pin to See the Peep Show. Scott Cherry's dramatisation of F Tennyson Jesse's novel inspired by a controversial murder trial of the 1920s (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 06/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Are political blogs run by women different to those run by men? Professor Seaton joins Jane and political blogger Iain Dale to discuss the issue.
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Woman's Hour - 06/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (14/20).
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Woman's Hour - 06/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Burlesque: Emancipation or exploitation? Is it fair to fund women in business, developments in HRT, and female boxers training for the 2012 Olympics.
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Woman's Hour - 07/01/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (1/10).
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Woman's Hour - 07/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Music journalist and Motown historian Adam White and soul singer, Beverley Knight celebrate 50 years of Mowtown Records.
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Woman's Hour - 07/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including novelist Nadifa Mohamed on her Somali father, photographer Elinor Carucci, and how important is the woman's vote to politicians?
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Woman's Hour - 07/01/2011
With Sheila McClennon.Typing versus handwriting, how to keep up a new year's resolution to get fit, swine flu in children and moves to remember a forgotten war heroine.
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Woman's Hour - 07/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Observations, by Jane Harris. 3/10. Bessy discovers that Arabella is writing a book about domestic servants.
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Woman's Hour - 07/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Daunt and Dervish. Another adventure for Guy Meredith's female private eyes, set in 1953 (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 07/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including part three of the drama The Women's Room.
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Woman's Hour - 07/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Exploring Italy's feminist emergency and the state of women's cricket in the UK. Including drama: Writing the Century. 5/5: Keep the Home Fires Burning.
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Woman's Hour - 07/04/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Little.
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Woman's Hour - 07/04/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Drama: Lucia's Progress. Mapp and Lucia renew their rivalry for social supremacy in EF Benson's classic comedy (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 07/04/2010
Jenni Murray discusses how the computer has moved into the bedroom and created havoc; tackling domestic violence; 40th anniversary of The Female Eunuch; Spanish chicken recipe.
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Woman's Hour - 07/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 3/5: 1918-1930: A Land Fit for Heroes?
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Woman's Hour - 07/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit.
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Woman's Hour - 07/05/2010
With Jenni Murray. Election response: Jenni speaks to newly-elected women MPs.
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Woman's Hour - 07/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: No Nightingales No Snakes: Short stories by Maeve Binchy. 4/5: The Answer Machine.
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Woman's Hour - 07/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Mary Portas on her new series Mary Queen of Shops; breast screening for younger women; novelist Emma Henderson; the issues around gay parenting.
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Woman's Hour - 07/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Chaka Khan talks about returning to the UK with her first new material in a decade and her album called Funk This.
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Woman's Hour - 07/07/2009
With Jane Garvey. Jane chats to Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine and hears from biographer Diane Atkinson about two extraordinary women from WWI.
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Woman's Hour - 07/07/2010
Why do so many women not exercise? Plus, women and public sector pay and pensions, Myrrha Stanford Smith on winning a literary deal in her 80s, and Rock Choir. With Jenni Murray.
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Woman's Hour - 07/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 7/10: 10,000,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 07/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Violinist Vanessa Mae talks about how much of her ability was inherited and how much was down to her own work.
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Woman's Hour - 07/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the drama The Lover. 5/5. The young French girl and her Chinese lover are parted when she is forced to return to France.
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Woman's Hour - 07/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Beth Ditto, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Iran's first female Cabinet minister, and the stomach: our quest for flatness in cultural and historical context.
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Woman's Hour - 07/09/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Home tutoring - educationally helpful or socially divisive?; 30 years of China's one-child policy and playwright Nell Leyshon on her new play 'Bedlam'.
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Woman's Hour - 07/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. A special programme looking at the stigma of mental health problems and the impact on family and friends.
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Woman's Hour - 07/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Climate Rush founder Tamsin Omond, Mary Contini cooks mushrooms Italian-style, and cougar women - is it ok to date younger men? Drama: TwilightBaby.com.
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Woman's Hour - 07/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Ingrid Betancourt on her 6 years as a hostage in Columbia; the Women's National Commission - should it be abolished? and Marina and the Diamonds.
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Woman's Hour - 07/11/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: A Pin to See the Peep Show. Scott Cherry's dramatisation of F Tennyson Jesse's novel inspired by a controversial murder trial of the 1920s (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 07/11/2008
With Sheila McClennon. American musician Michelle Shocked talks about her new album, To Heaven U Ride, a selection of gospel and secular songs.
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Woman's Hour - 07/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (15/20).
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Woman's Hour - 07/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Alesha Dixon on her BBC3 documentary looking at absent dads, the NICE guidelines on stillbirth, and the return of tracksuit bottoms.
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Woman's Hour - 07/12/2010
With Jane Garvey. What role do secrets play in our personal lives? Ryanair's raunchy festive calendar - sexist publicity stunt or charitable fund raiser? And obesity in pregnancy.
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Woman's Hour - 08/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (2/10).
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Woman's Hour - 08/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Dr Laurence Goldman discusses the entrants for the Dictionary of National Biography 2009.
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Woman's Hour - 08/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Observations, by Jane Harris. 4/10. Bessy discovers that one of the previous maids at Castle Haivers died in mysterious circumstances.
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Woman's Hour - 08/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Daunt and Dervish. Another adventure for Guy Meredith's female private eyes, set in 1953 (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 08/02/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including: Winning Women's Votes: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg; update on Iran; listener feedback on wearing bright clothes, Margaret Thatcher's egg diet.
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Woman's Hour - 08/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including treating personality disorder, Amazon kayaker Helen Skelton, travel insurance when suffering secondary cancer, author Jean Bagott.
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Woman's Hour - 08/04/2008
Katie Hickman explores the lives of women in the Sultan's harem during the 16th century Ottoman Empire. Drama: Lucia's Progress (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 08/04/2009
With Sheila McClennon. Including Carole King, teenage Formula One hopeful Alice Powell, water sanitation in Liberia and boat builder Gail McGarva. Plus drama: Restless.
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Woman's Hour - 08/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe on leaving Westminster; actor Jodhi May in a dark comedy; how far should advertising go, and can worry be inherited?
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Woman's Hour - 08/05/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 4/5: 1918-1930: A Land Fit for Heroes?
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Woman's Hour - 08/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Ladies of Letters Crunch Credit.
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Woman's Hour - 08/06/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: No Nightingales No Snakes: Short stories by Maeve Binchy. 5/5: By the Time We Get to Clifden.
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Woman's Hour - 08/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing laws on stalking, short men, the history of flight attendants and the golden age of air travel, and talking to a female engineering prize finalist.
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Woman's Hour - 08/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Gail Porter talks about her hair growing back. Joanna Briscoe and Mavis Cheek on why we lie. Haiti's earthquake and its impact on the carnival tradition.
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Woman's Hour - 08/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Laura Fish joins Jenni to talk about her new novel Strange Music.
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Woman's Hour - 08/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Dame Helen Ghosh on the history of women civil servants, a new model of welfare in Southwark, and should there be more 'mantenatal' classes?
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Woman's Hour - 08/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 8/10: 100,000,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 08/08/2008
With Razia Iqbal. Anna McNamee meets Mexican artist Helen Escobedo at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield, where her latest installation Summerfields is on show.
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Woman's Hour - 08/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Balance of Power. Deborah Davis's tale of power struggles in the court of Queen Anne (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 08/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Liz Jones and Jane Alexander on moving to the country, trumpeter Alison Balsom, and what are the risk factors of breast cancer? Plus drama: Au Pairs.
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Woman's Hour - 08/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Tamsin Greig discusses her new film, Tamara Drewe. Plus, where are the male teachers in early learning? There's live music from singer Nell Bryden.
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Woman's Hour - 08/10/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including the drama Mr Moonlight. 1/5. Robert Forrest's tale of a day in the life of a man who goes off the rails when he hears about the death of John Lennon.
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Woman's Hour - 08/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Taking calls from listeners on topics including feeling shunned or isolated by mental health problems.
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Woman's Hour - 08/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Phyllida Law on living with her mother-in-law, Julie Welch on 100-mile walking, and gendered children's clothes - why do stores go for pink and blue?
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Woman's Hour - 08/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. David Tennant on playing a bereaved dad. Who are the women in the new Shadow Cabinet? and what's the appeal of bear hunting to Canadian women?
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Woman's Hour - 08/11/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: A Pin to See the Peep Show. Scott Cherry's dramatisation of F Tennyson Jesse's novel inspired by a controversial murder trial of the 1920s (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 08/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Pamela Stephenson on her role on Strictly Come Dancing; an art exhibition about murdered women in Mexico; the insolvency rise in women in their forties.
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Woman's Hour - 08/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and advisor to John McCain, talks to Jane about the glass ceiling in American politics and business.
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Woman's Hour - 08/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Tamzin Outhwaite on Sweet Charity; Marianne Lumb on kitchen knives; the rise and fall of children's outdoor play.
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Woman's Hour - 08/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Will women be hit harder by a rise in tuition fees?
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Woman's Hour - 09/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (3/10).
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Woman's Hour - 09/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Professor Marilyn Davidson and Nicola Smith from the TUC Economics Department join Jenni to ask if women employees are suffering most as the credit crunch besieges the high street?
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Woman's Hour - 09/02/2009
With Jane Garvey. Are you sick of being single? Marital therapist Andrew G Marshall offers some tips for the long-term and newly single woman.
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Woman's Hour - 09/02/2010
With Jane Garvey. A special programme on women in the 1930s: their home lives, their work, their political engagement and their love of glamour.
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Woman's Hour - 09/03/2007
With Martha Kearney. Including part five of the drama The Women's Room.
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Woman's Hour - 09/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Julie Myerson, Jacqueline Wilson and Ulrika Johnson on light adult incontinence. Plus drama Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch.
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Woman's Hour - 09/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Lynda Bellingham on being adopted, Beate Sirota Gordon on the Japanese constitution, and should MPs be allowed to job share?
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Woman's Hour - 09/04/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including Stories for Another Day, a series of anecdotes by Alan Plater.
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Woman's Hour - 09/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Lucia's Progress. Mapp and Lucia renew their rivalry for social supremacy in EF Benson's classic comedy (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 09/04/2009
With Jane Little. Including Professor Ursula King on our need for spiritualty, the life of aviator Sheila Scott and men and baldness: fight it or embrace it? Plus drama: Restless.
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Woman's Hour - 09/04/2010
Jenni Murray discusses a new biography of Myra Hindley. We also visit Montreal's ice hotel and mark the centenary of Olive Shapley - one of the most important women in broadcasting.
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Woman's Hour - 09/05/2008
Susan Sarandon on her longevity as a successful actress and why newly qualified midwives are struggling to find jobs. Including drama: Writing the Century.
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Woman's Hour - 09/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including features on singer Kiki Dee, living with a Downs Syndrome child and concerns over the increase in human trafficking. Plus drama: Paid Servant.
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Woman's Hour - 09/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. Asking where are the big-hitting female MPs? Plus opera singer Christine Rice and Canadian chef Jennifer McLagan on her new book about fat.
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Woman's Hour - 09/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. How fatherhood has evolved over the past 100 years, the daughter of a British woman on death row talks about their future, and female cartoonists.
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Woman's Hour - 09/07/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama One Down, by Alison Joseph. 1/5. When a mystery crossword appears in The Rainswick Mercury, the staff are flummoxed.
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Woman's Hour - 09/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Michelin-starred French chef Helene Darroze talks to Jenni about her cooking philosophy.
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Woman's Hour - 09/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing new findings on inequalities in care for sufferers of Parkinson's Disease- and a performance from Laura Dockrill, a poet for the 'MySpace' generation.
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Woman's Hour - 09/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The conductor Marin Alsop. More rows over women bishops. Northern life in literature over the last 50 years. A memoir of a girlhood in Yorkshire.
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Woman's Hour - 09/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 9/10: 100,000,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 09/08/2010
Presented by Bidisha. Niki Segnit on flavours and natural pairings in food and why age is no barrier for British artist Rose Wylie, whose work has wowed critics in the US.
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Woman's Hour - 09/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Balance of Power. Deborah Davis's tale of power struggles in the court of Queen Anne (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 09/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including addiction to over-the-counter pain relief, autumn fashion trends, 'Woman as Design', and listener feedback on our town versus country debate.
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Woman's Hour - 09/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Sadie Frost on her autobiography Crazy Days.
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Woman's Hour - 09/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Mr Moonlight. Robert Forrest's tale of a day in the life of a man who goes off the rails when he hears about the death of John Lennon (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 09/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Afghan MP Malalai Joya discusses the plight of women in Afghanistan.
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Woman's Hour - 09/11/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: A Pin to See the Peep Show. Scott Cherry's dramatisation of F Tennyson Jesse's novel inspired by a controversial murder trial of the 1920s (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 09/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including building character in children, the Lumiere festival, Kym Marsh on premature births and 'comping' to beat the recession. Plus drama: Our Mutual Friend.
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Woman's Hour - 09/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including dentures - love them or hate them? the Maldivian women's rowing team and historian Sarah Searight's life-long passion for lapis lazuli.
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Woman's Hour - 09/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Should lads mags have an 18 certificate? Jane speaks to Labour MP Claire Curtis-Thomas and Michael Deacon, former deputy entertainment editor of Zoo magazine.
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Woman's Hour - 09/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including children and gear, the 'Third Woman' in business, sex workers in India, and the Sally Bercow effect: politics and truth?
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Woman's Hour - 09/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Why are lung cancer rates falling in men but rising in women?
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Woman's Hour - 10/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (4/10).
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Woman's Hour - 10/01/2011
Presented by Jane Garvey. How often should you change your bedsheets? Environmental footprint and shopping choices; actress Betty Anne Waters; and should prostitution be legalised?
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Woman's Hour - 10/02/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including sculptor Dora Gordine, Alison Krauss, an update on women bishops and is bullying just part of growing up?
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Woman's Hour - 10/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including women in the Bible, youth unemployment as part of our Winning Women's Votes series, and the book Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad.
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Woman's Hour - 10/03/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
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Woman's Hour - 10/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Ladies of Letters Go Green, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Comic heroines Irene and Vera turn their hand to saving the planet (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 10/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including children's friendships. Plus drama Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch. Hazel waits with her brother for the return of their mother.
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Woman's Hour - 10/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including facing up to death, Angela Huth on her new book about Landgirls, sex blogger Zoe Margolis, and should the burka be banned?
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Woman's Hour - 10/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Stories for Another Day, a series of anecdotes by Alan Plater, reflecting on the plays, books and movies he never finished. When Rupert Met Tony.
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Woman's Hour - 10/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Lucia's Progress. Mapp and Lucia renew their rivalry for social supremacy in EF Benson's classic comedy (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 10/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Casting new light on the Lady with the Lamp, the satchel as this season's must-have accessory, and does Burlesque have a place in an art gallery?
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Woman's Hour - 10/06/2008
Presented by Jenni Murray, with Ffion Hague on Lloyd George and women. Also including the second part of the drama Paid Servant, ER Braithwaite's novel set in London in 1958.
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Woman's Hour - 10/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Talking to the new Children's Laureate Anthony Browne and to British journalist Justine Hardy about her new book on Kashmir.
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Woman's Hour - 10/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Vanessa Redgrave discusses playing opposite her husband on film and how she coped with recent family tragedy. Plus, shoes which claim to keep you fit.
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Woman's Hour - 10/07/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama One Down, by Alison Joseph. 2/5. Ian thinks the mystery crossword may be more than just a prank.
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Woman's Hour - 10/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. What is it about women's names that makes them so attractive to songwriters? Jenni is joined by writer and broadcaster Paul Gambaccini and songwriter Amanda Ghost.
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Woman's Hour - 10/08/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 10/10: 1,000,000,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 10/08/2009
With Sheila McClennon. Including Sara Payne and Shy Keenan on a friendship forged through adversity, Gillian Greenwood on marrying late in life and the Labeque Sisters play live.
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Woman's Hour - 10/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including 7/7 London bombings survivor Davinia Douglass on her recovery, and 24-year-old composer Alissa Firsova on having her piece played at the Proms.
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Woman's Hour - 10/09/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road, Christopher Matthew's comic tale of life in postwar suburban Surrey. 1/5. Brief Period of Rejoicing.
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Woman's Hour - 10/09/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama Balance of Power. 3/5. Abigail arranges for the Leader of the Opposition to visit Queen Anne in private.
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Woman's Hour - 10/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Elizabeth Turner on losing her husband in the 9/11 attacks, three operatic dames, and are 'rape' jokes ever acceptable? Plus drama: Au Pairs.
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Woman's Hour - 10/09/2010
A Woman's Hour special with Jenni Murray and the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire at 90. 'Debo' is the last surviving Mitford sister and has witnessed the 20th century up close.
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Woman's Hour - 10/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Mr Moonlight. Robert Forrest's tale of a day in the life of a man who goes off the rails when he hears about the death of John Lennon (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 10/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Singer-songwriter Randy Crawford talks about her new album, a collection of classic jazz and blues songs called No Regrets.
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Woman's Hour - 10/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman talks about her life, music and politics, and performs some tracks.
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Woman's Hour - 10/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including the problems of taking anti-depressants during pregnancy, the woman who invented Jenga, and why do American women excell in UK companies?
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Woman's Hour - 10/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Margaret Atwood on 25 years of The Handmaid's Tale, Chinese classical guitarist Xuefei Yang and caring in South Asian families in the UK today.
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Woman's Hour - 10/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (16/20).
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Woman's Hour - 10/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including an excavation at Greenham Peace Camp, Sharia Law in UK, premature labour and the treasures of Liverpool Museum. Plus drama: To the North.
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Woman's Hour - 10/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including what the Open University has meant for women, war artist Arabella Dorman on her time in Afghanistan, and why is it so hard to buy presents for men?
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Woman's Hour - 10/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Gillian McKeith fresh from the jungle. Why are so many straight women gay icons? The politics of taking in lodgers.
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Woman's Hour - 11/01/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (5/10).
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Woman's Hour - 11/01/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including the science of attraction; post cancer care; women in Greek myth; fixing the family: the role of grandparents. Plus drama: Six Suspects.
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Woman's Hour - 11/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Dale Templar on the new BBC One series The Human Planet; what the North-South Sudanese split could mean for women; and beatboxer Bellatrix.
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Woman's Hour - 11/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Kiss. Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. 1/5: Waterloo East.
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Woman's Hour - 11/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Television comedy writer and actress Sharon Horgan talks about her path to success, her particular brand of black comedy, and her unromantic view of female friendship.
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Woman's Hour - 11/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Antony Worrall Thompson on cooking for diabetics, women in the military and depression, and novelist Janet Skeslien Charles on Moonlight in Odessa.
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Woman's Hour - 11/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Ladies of Letters Go Green, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Comic heroines Irene and Vera turn their hand to saving the planet (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 11/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Simon Dixon on his new biography of Catherine the Great and remembering Susan Tsvangirai.
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Woman's Hour - 11/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. A special programme on the mother-daughter relationship. With Sam Roddick, Olivia Lichtenstein, Yasmeen Khan, Laverne Antrobus, Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward.
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Woman's Hour - 11/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Stories for Another Day, a series of anecdotes by Alan Plater, reflecting on the projects he has never finished writing. Jungle Games.
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Woman's Hour - 11/04/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Lucia's Progress. Mapp and Lucia renew their rivalry for social supremacy in EF Benson's classic comedy (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 11/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Should we ban smacking? Whales and their mothering habits. Condolence letter etiquette. Is workplace stress causing heart disease in younger women?
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Woman's Hour - 11/06/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: The Family Man, by Mike Bartlett. 1/5: On a surprise visit, 15-year-old Isobel discovers a stranger in her politician father's London flat.
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Woman's Hour - 11/06/2008
Jenni Murray has reports on the law on assisted suicide, and musicians who have dueted for 20 years. Plus who was Golda Meir? Including part three of the drama Paid Servant.
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Woman's Hour - 11/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Caroline Flint MP on why she left the Cabinet, the legacy of natural childbirth guru Dr Grantly Dick-Read and West End musical star Maria Friedman.
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Woman's Hour - 11/06/2010
Presented by Sheila McClennon. Women who love football and men who hate it; Cornelia Sorabji - India's first woman barrister; grandparenting in Europe; autism and mental health.
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Woman's Hour - 11/07/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama One Down, by Alison Joseph. 3/5. Mary is pushing Julian to fight for the survival of his paper.
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Woman's Hour - 11/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Chef and TV presenter Ching-He Huang talks about her BBC2 series Chinese Food Made Easy. She gives Jane a lesson in stress-free and MSG-free Chinese cookery.
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Woman's Hour - 11/08/2008
Jenni Murray looks at violence against women in Australia and the writings of the tenth century Japanese noblewoman, Sei Shonagon.
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Woman's Hour - 11/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Ariel Leve and Robert Holden discuss which is healthier, optimism or pessimism; the cultural context of hostessing in Japan. Including drama: Villette.
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Woman's Hour - 11/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Dr Karen Throsby on women and extreme sports, Katie Derham on re-learning the violin and Emma Donoghue on her Man Booker longlisted novel Room.
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Woman's Hour - 11/09/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road, Christopher Matthew's gently comic tale of life in postwar suburban Surrey. 2/5. The Hero's Return.
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Woman's Hour - 11/09/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: Balance of Power. Deborah Davis's tale of power struggles in the court of Queen Anne (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 11/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing pressure put on 11-year-olds to pass school entrance exams and Tyneside playwright Githa Sowerby's play Rutherford & Son. Plus drama: Au Pairs.
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Woman's Hour - 11/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Mr Moonlight. Robert Forrest's tale of a day in the life of a man who goes off the rails when he hears about the death of John Lennon (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 11/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including the original IT girl Tara Palmer Tomkinson; Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter; children and hand washing; and new laws affecting women in Kenya.
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Woman's Hour - 11/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Sri Lankan activist and writer Sunila Abeysekera discusses her career in campaigning.
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Woman's Hour - 11/11/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including sexism in the Church of England, queen of the manta rays Dr Andrea Marshall, top Irish cook Darina Allen, and how wise are proverbs?
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Woman's Hour - 11/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Catherine of Aragon through the eyes of a new biography which paints her as a woman who battled with eating disorders during her marriage to Henry VIII.
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Woman's Hour - 11/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (17/20).
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Woman's Hour - 11/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including learning poetry by heart, teenage girls in abusive relationships and commemorating 90 years since British women's first vote. Plus drama: To the North.
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Woman's Hour - 11/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Writing the Century 11 - All My Trials.
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Woman's Hour - 12/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Royal Mail has included the mini dress as one of the iconic design classics in a series of stamps. Jane talks to Mary Quant about her life and work.
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Woman's Hour - 12/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Marine Le Pen's role in French politics, blues singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and how should the crime of on-street grooming be tackled?
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Woman's Hour - 12/02/2007
Magazine programme, including part six of The drama The Observations, by Jane Harris.
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Woman's Hour - 12/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Kiss. Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. 2/5: The Advertiser.
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Woman's Hour - 12/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Will Iceland's new female Prime Minister be able to make a difference?
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Woman's Hour - 12/03/2007
With Martha Kearney. Including part six of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel. Mira and Norm are now fully absorbed into suburban New Jersey.
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Woman's Hour - 12/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Ladies of Letters Go Green, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Comic heroines Irene and Vera turn their hand to saving the planet (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 12/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including epidurals, American singer and actor Elisabeth Welch and Pakistani children as Taliban recruits. Plus drama Writing the Century 1948-1953.
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Woman's Hour - 12/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Stories for Another Day, series of anecdotes by Alan Plater, reflecting on the works he has never finished writing. The Eddie Rosner Story.
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Woman's Hour - 12/04/2010
With Jane Garvey. Winchester Cathedral mounts a new permanent exhibition to celebrate Jane Austen at the start of her bicentenary decade. Graduate internships.
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Woman's Hour - 12/05/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Gifted. Nikita Lalwani's story of a girl who wins a place at Oxford at 15 but struggles to grow up and escape the strictures of family life (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 12/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing what rights a family has if they don't want their relative to go into a care home and Miranda Seymour on 'Chaplin's Girl', Virginia Cherrill.
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Woman's Hour - 12/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Where are the women in the new political landscape? Plus family rows about pets and Michelle Lovric on her novel 'The Book of the Human Skin'.
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Woman's Hour - 12/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring discussions on issues affecting bingo and partying with kids, an interview with veteran actress Margaret Tyzack and a report on homosexuality in India.
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Woman's Hour - 12/07/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama One Down, by Alison Joseph. 4/5. Julian confronts his enemy.
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Woman's Hour - 12/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Child soldiers in Uganda, romantic conmen and the women who are duped by them, new advice on poisonous plants and girl groups from the sixties.
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Woman's Hour - 12/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including features on novelist Kate Atkinson, a radio soap opera in Afghanistan and how to cook couscous.
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Woman's Hour - 12/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing women and ETA; how to get more female MPs; memories of Soho in the fifties and the future of domestic violence refuges.
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Woman's Hour - 12/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Vanessa Feltz on gastric bands; 90 years of Hillcroft College; is fostering in the UK at breaking point?
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Woman's Hour - 12/09/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road, Christopher Matthew's gently comic tale of life in postwar suburban Surrey. 3/5. Father and Son.
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Woman's Hour - 12/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Mary Beard on Roman women in Pompeii, pianist Helene Grimaud, and the Friday Panel. Including drama: Balance of Power. Power struggles in Queen Anne's court (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 12/10/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Mr Moonlight. Robert Forrest's tale of a day in the life of a man who goes off the rails when he hears about the death of John Lennon (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 12/10/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including: Lily Cole, Summer babies and problems with school. Martha Holmes talks about getting up close to nature in the new BBC documentary 'Life'.
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Woman's Hour - 12/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Beverley Turner on her husband James Cracknell's brain injury, the life of 18th century opera singer Elizabeth Linley and child poverty.
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Woman's Hour - 12/11/2007
Including drama: How I Live Now. Meg Rosoff's award-winning story of teenage love set in the near future (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 12/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Dr Lucy Blue of the new BBC2 series Oceans, talks to Jane about what she learnt from making the series and how she developed her passion for maritime archaeology.
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Woman's Hour - 12/11/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including actress Romola Garai; canine chic with Caprice and her chihuahuas; and who pays for dementia care?
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Woman's Hour - 12/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Have we lost the 'art of goodhousekeeping'? Does it matter anyway? Has Aung San Sui Kyi made a mistake in asking people to boycott the Burmese elections?
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Woman's Hour - 12/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (18/20).
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Woman's Hour - 12/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: To the North. Cecilia fears for Emmeline, who is tortured by suspicions of Markie's infidelity.
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Woman's Hour - 13/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Will the recession see a rise in domestic violence? Jane hears from a survivor of domestic violence and discusses the issues.
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Woman's Hour - 13/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including women in the armed forces, retro furniture, the selfish generation, and Judith Hackitt, chair of the Health and Safety Executive.
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Woman's Hour - 13/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. Why the family of Louisa May Alcott became obsessed with a naturalistic cult and what a ruling on age discrimination might mean for other women at work.
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Woman's Hour - 13/02/2007
Magazine programme, including drama The Observations, by Jane Harris, dramatised by Chris Dolan.
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Woman's Hour - 13/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Kiss. Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. 3/5: The Kiss That Never Happened.
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Woman's Hour - 13/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. How far has the occupation of Iraq pushed back the position of women? What needs to be done to safeguard their rights?
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Woman's Hour - 13/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including part seven of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 13/03/2008
With Jane Little. Drama: Ladies of Letters Go Green, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Comic heroines Irene and Vera turn their hand to saving the planet (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 13/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including drama Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch. After hearing good news from the BBC, Hazel travels to the Woman's Hour studio in Leeds.
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Woman's Hour - 13/04/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including Drama: Stories for Another Day. Gregor's Foot.
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Woman's Hour - 13/04/2009
With Jane Garvey. A special programme about the future of child protection, in the wake of Lord Laming's report into child safeguarding reforms. Plus drama: Restless.
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Woman's Hour - 13/04/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. A new exhibition devoted to actress Grace Kelly, the importance of saying thank you, former MP Ann Cryer on standing down and Kishwar Desai's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 13/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring poet Gillian Clarke, a look at the female Republican movers and shakers, and artist Barbara Rae. Including drama: Gifted, by Nikita Lalwani (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 13/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing Mayawati, the Indian woman who has set her sights on being Prime Minister, and institutional sexism in the criminal justice system.
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Woman's Hour - 13/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The changing image of Maid Marian, why more women don't work in hospitals, how US TV series Glee is inspiring UK choirs and novelist Barbara Trapido.
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Woman's Hour - 13/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Family Man, by Mike Bartlett. 3/5. With the press camped outside the door, MP's daughter Isobel goes to school.
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Woman's Hour - 13/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Paid Servant. ER Braithwaite's novel, set in London in 1958, is based on his experiences as a black social worker in a racist society.
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Woman's Hour - 13/07/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama One Down, by Alison Joseph. 5/5. It's publication day for The Rainswick Mercury. Will it be the last one?
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Woman's Hour - 13/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Women and power tools, Castle Howard's 'radical' countess, and blogging mums: a new way to make a living from the web?
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Woman's Hour - 13/08/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama The Crowded Street. 1/10. Diana Griffiths' dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment.
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Woman's Hour - 13/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Are we in denial about infidelity? Jenni discusses American psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum's ideas with agony aunt Anna Raeburn and relationship counsellor Carol Martin-Sperry.
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Woman's Hour - 13/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Was Joan of Arc a saint or spin doctor? Danish research shows that girls are developing breasts earlier - why? And Honey Kalaria demonstrates Bollywood dancing.
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Woman's Hour - 13/08/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Mine's a pint: the rise of female ale-drinkers. Bluegrass from south Devon: the Appalachian music of the Carrivick Sisters. Writer Tamara Chalabi.
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Woman's Hour - 13/09/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Drama: A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road. Christopher Matthew's gently comic tale of life in postwar suburban Surrey. 4/5: Wrens Drink Beer.
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Woman's Hour - 13/09/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Do army wives need more support? Plus food writer Diana Henry, the prospects for Australian PM Julia Gillard, and the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Woman's Hour - 13/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Author Jackie Collins talks about her 26th novel, Married Lovers.
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Woman's Hour - 13/10/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Sheryl Gascoigne on her life with Gazza, 'Woman of the Year' Jane Walker on starting a school on a Manila rubbish dump, and why we love jeans.
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Woman's Hour - 13/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including June Spencer, 'Peggy' in The Archers; Elish Angiolini, Scotland's Lord Advocate and the grande dame of peformance art, Marina Abramovic.
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Woman's Hour - 13/11/2007
Including drama: How I Live Now. Meg Rosoff's award-winning story of teenage love set in the near future (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 13/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. What does your singing voice say about you? Jane discusses the female vocal range & women's relationship with their voices with voice coach Patsy Rodenberg and singer Catherine Bott.
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Woman's Hour - 13/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (19/20).
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Woman's Hour - 13/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. The menopause and HRT - your questions and concerns. We talk to Professor Mary Ann Lumsden from the British Menopause Society and other experts.
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Woman's Hour - 14/01/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (6/10).
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Woman's Hour - 14/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Granta's first female editor Alex Clark discusses the challenges of editing a magazine of new writing.
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Woman's Hour - 14/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Christina Schmid on the death of her husband Olaf, the actress Celia Imrie on Mrs Malaprop, and can Horse Boy Camps help autistic children?
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Woman's Hour - 14/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murry. Soprano Heather Shipp talks about the enduring appeal of Carmen. Plus, the Women of Steel who kept the Sheffield steel mills going during the war.
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Woman's Hour - 14/02/2007
Including drama The Observations, by Jane Harris, dramatised by Chris Dolan.
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Woman's Hour - 14/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Kiss. Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. 4/5: The Accident.
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Woman's Hour - 14/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 14/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Ladies of Letters Go Green, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Comic heroines Irene and Vera turn their hand to saving the planet (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 14/04/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes, with Miriam O'Reilly.
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Woman's Hour - 14/04/2008
Jane Garvey looks at how France is set to become the first country to outlaw websites that promote anorexia. Sun Shuyun talks about everyday life in Tibet.
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Woman's Hour - 14/04/2009
With Jane Little. Includes Alex Bilmes from GQ, who claims women criticise other women too much, and issues facing women voters in the Indian elections. Plus drama: Restless.
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Woman's Hour - 14/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Fatima Bhutto talks about the dangerous and death-torn history of her family in Pakistan. And how to find wild garlic and how to cook it.
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Woman's Hour - 14/05/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: A Confidential Agent (Retired) (1/5). Another adventure for Nick McCarty's former private investigator Liz Parker, now retired in France.
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Woman's Hour - 14/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Gifted. Nikita Lalwani's story of a girl who wins a place at Oxford at 15 but struggles to grow up and escape the rigidity of family life.
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Woman's Hour - 14/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Talking to Elaine Showalter about America's great women writers and discussing what dying intestate can mean for those left behind.
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Woman's Hour - 14/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Toulouse-Lautrec at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery; the Dukan Diet; getting through the exam season; and compromise - is it only a female trait?
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Woman's Hour - 14/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Angela Robson reports on the women involved in mine clearance in Angola.
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Woman's Hour - 14/07/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing how social care should be funded and rediscovering British cherries with Henrietta Green. Plus Russian violin virtuoso Alina Ibragimova plays Bach.
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Woman's Hour - 14/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Why are Germanic women historically portrayed as warriors? And chief inspector of prisons Dame Anne Owers talks about stepping down after nine years.
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Woman's Hour - 14/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Crowded Street: 2/10. Muriel has finished boarding school and is returning home to Marshington.
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Woman's Hour - 14/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Judy Merry reports on the forthcoming International Festival of Glass in Stourbridge.
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Woman's Hour - 14/09/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: A Nightingale Sang in Fernhurst Road. Christopher Matthew's gently comic tale of life in postwar suburban Surrey. 5/5: Would You Like to Kiss Me?
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Woman's Hour - 14/09/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Natascha Kampusch on her imprisonment in an Austrian basement; the rise in STI's in the over-45s and Yvonne Chaka Chaka, South African superstar.
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Woman's Hour - 14/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Author Margaret Atwood talks about her latest book Payback, in which she tackles issues of debt in everyday lives.
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Woman's Hour - 14/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Leona Lewis, Agatha Christie's house, Ranulph Fiennes, and are male teachers important to girls? Plus drama: Degrees of Separation.
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Woman's Hour - 14/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Yvette Cooper, Labour's new Shadow Foreign Secretary, solicitor Gareth Peirce on miscarriages of justice and influential women cooks.
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Woman's Hour - 14/11/2007
The award-winning actress Dame Judi Dench discusses her career and her new role in the BBC drama, Cranford.
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Woman's Hour - 14/11/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Why do the best conversations often happen in cars? New research produced by Edinburgh University suggests car sharers develop surprising levels of intimacy.
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Woman's Hour - 14/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (20/20).
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Woman's Hour - 14/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. New Zealand chef Peter Gordon on the perfect pavolva, how prison reform will impact on women offenders, and should children be explosed to explicit art?
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Woman's Hour - 15/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (7/10).
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Woman's Hour - 15/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Laura Kuenssberg reports about the role that Michelle Obama will play in her husband's presidency.
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Woman's Hour - 15/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Observations, by Jane Harris, dramatised by Chris Dolan.
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Woman's Hour - 15/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Kiss. Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. 5/5: Jacob Lennon.
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Woman's Hour - 15/02/2010
With Sheila McClennon. A special progamme about girls and maths at school and beyond.
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Woman's Hour - 15/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including part nine of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 15/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. An interview with Gordon Brown as part of our Winning Women's Votes series. Listener feedback on home births. Going out without a bra?
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Woman's Hour - 15/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Love My Rifle More than You. Kayla Williams's memoirs of a young female American soldier in Iraq (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 15/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The actress Kim Cattrall on working with director Roman Polanski, analysing the party manifestos and a new biography of florist Constance Spry.
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Woman's Hour - 15/05/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama A Confidential Agent (Retired): Alarm bells start to ring when a troubled businessman fails to show up for a meeting.
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Woman's Hour - 15/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Gifted. Nikita Lalwani's story of a girl who wins a place at Oxford at 15 but struggles to grow up and escape the rigidity of family life.
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Woman's Hour - 15/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. With columnist Lynn Barber on her memoir 'An Education', and the drama Diary of an On-Call Girl.
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Woman's Hour - 15/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. How can kids be prevented from accessing porn online? Can date nights help refresh relationships? Plus, an interview with deaf author Louise Stern.
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Woman's Hour - 15/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Features on Esther Rantzen and life in your sixties, Serpentine Gallery curator Julia Peyton-Jones, maternity services.
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Woman's Hour - 15/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing women and the rural economy, classes to help parents deal with divorce and whether feminism has failed the 'ordinary' woman.
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Woman's Hour - 15/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Is the new 'Men's Hour' on Radio Five live a good idea? International Baccalaureate or 'A' levels, which is better for students? And Letters of Wishes.
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Woman's Hour - 15/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Crowded Street. Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment (3/10).
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Woman's Hour - 15/08/2008
With Razia Iqbal. Are women more likely to suffer from asthma, and what is the best way to cope with the condition?
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Woman's Hour - 15/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Pam Ayres, the practical and emotional implications of debt for families, and size zero models.
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Woman's Hour - 15/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Margaret Drabble on the British landscape as an inspiration for writers; dealing with student depression; and Colombian singer Toto La Momposina.
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Woman's Hour - 15/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Carol Vorderman on her autobiography, the age of criminality for children, and Judith Jamison on a new production at Sadler's Wells.
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Woman's Hour - 15/10/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including the drama The Tenderness of Wolves. 1/10. Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada.
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Woman's Hour - 15/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including women and work in the economic crisis, travel writer Dervla Murphy and the new Renaissance Faces exhibition.
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Woman's Hour - 15/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Dr Angie Hobbs on making philosophy accessible, TV chef Anjum Anand prepares Diwali sweets, and who were Handel's women? Drama: Degrees of Separation.
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Woman's Hour - 15/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Can artificial flowers ever measure up to real ones? Should IVF be funded on the NHS? Janet Suzman on Antony & Cleopatra; and WW1 nurse Edith Cavell.
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Woman's Hour - 15/11/2007
Including drama: How I Live Now. Meg Rosoff's award-winning story of teenage love set in the near future (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 15/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Annie Lennox talks about her life and music. Why are children still being held in Britain's detention centres? And the lady lock keeper Annie Myers.
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Woman's Hour - 15/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including actress Emma Watson, benefits and the underclass, sparkling wines and the Monday Panel. Plus drama: A Small Town Murder.
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Woman's Hour - 15/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Alice Walpole, Consul General in Basra; the closure of the Human Trafficking Unit; dealing with grief; warming winter drinks.
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Woman's Hour - 15/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. How to take better photographs of family and friends.
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Woman's Hour - 16/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (8/10).
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Woman's Hour - 16/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Just how different was it growing up in the 1950s? Author Ali Sparkes and social historian Christina Hardyment discuss.
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Woman's Hour - 16/02/2007
With Martha Kearney, including drama: The Observations, by Jane Harris. A second tragedy on the railway line brings an unexpected conclusion for Bessy and Arabella.
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Woman's Hour - 16/02/2009
With Sheila McClennon. Paraplegic adventurer Karen Darke joins Sheila to discuss her adventures and what motivates her to attempt new challenges.
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Woman's Hour - 16/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Barbara Demick on women in North Korea, Barb Jungr sings live, and what can politicians do to make child protection work?
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Woman's Hour - 16/03/2007
A man voted for by listeners co-presents a special Red Nose Day edition with Martha Kearney. Including part ten of The Women's Room.
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Woman's Hour - 16/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including fashion trends for spring, American singer-songwriter Diana Jones performs in the studio. Plus drama Seeing is Believing, by Sian Evans.
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Woman's Hour - 16/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Sian Phillips on playing Juliet. Political parties and the glossies. Women jockeys - serious contenders? Latvian women - through the glass ceiling?
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Woman's Hour - 16/04/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including the drama The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, by Sam Boardman-Jacobs. Madrid at the height of the Spanish Civil War is a city under siege.
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Woman's Hour - 16/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring an interview with actress Sally Hawkins, and a look at why a ban on adult manga in Japan is unlikely. Drama: Love My Rifle More than You (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 16/04/2009
With Jenni Murray. A phone-in on the subject of teenagers. Are they really as bad as the media image might suggest? Plus drama: Restless.
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Woman's Hour - 16/04/2010
Presented from Manchester by Sheila McClennon. Is it harder for many female politicians to be taken seriously because they have softer, higher voices? Plus Saudi poet Hissa Hilal.
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Woman's Hour - 16/05/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama A Confidential Agent (Retired). 3/5. Penelope's husband is missing and she asks Liz to track him down.
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Woman's Hour - 16/05/2008
Jane Garvey talks to Jane Horrocks about her duel acting role in the Brecht play The Good Soul of Szechuan. Including drama: Gifted.
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Woman's Hour - 16/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson.
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Woman's Hour - 16/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Jo Whiley on her life as a radio DJ and asking if girls should be encouraged to choose money rather than job satisfaction when considering a career.
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Woman's Hour - 16/06/2010
Live debate hosted by Jenni Murray. Who's done most to put women on the UK political map - Margaret Thatcher, Barbara Castle, Emmeline Pankhurst or Mary Wollstonecraft?
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Woman's Hour - 16/07/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama My Place. 1/5. In Perth, Western Australia, Sally Morgan begins the search for her family's Aboriginal heritage.
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Woman's Hour - 16/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Louise Adamson meets some of the female prommers, who occupy the unseated sections of the hall, as they queue to get into the concert.
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Woman's Hour - 16/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing the love letters from John Keats to Fanny Brawne, and the pleasures and pitfalls of working past the age of 65.
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Woman's Hour - 16/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Killer tans - why do we still risk it? False allegations of rape, a day in the life of cricketer Charlotte Edwards and men's shoes.
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Woman's Hour - 16/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Crowded Street. Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment (4/10).
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Woman's Hour - 16/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Film director Gurinder Chadha discusses her latest work. And are holiday clubs for kids a dumping ground or a chance for adults to have some quality time?
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Woman's Hour - 16/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Award-winning crime writer Kathy Reichs talks about her latest book Devil Bones.
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Woman's Hour - 16/09/2009
Jenni Murray hosts a special edition with writer Maeve Binchy from her home in Dublin, to mark the publication of her latest collection of short stories, The Return Journey.
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Woman's Hour - 16/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. How should women tackle street harassment? Plus, autumn fashions.
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Woman's Hour - 16/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Tenderness of Wolves. 2/10. Mrs Ross' son has been missing since the day she discovered the murdered body of her neighbour.
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Woman's Hour - 16/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. How important is the issue of abortion in the US elections?
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Woman's Hour - 16/11/2007
Including drama: How I Live Now. Meg Rosoff's award-winning story of teenage love set in the near future (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 16/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. The enduring appeal of Amelia Earhart, Christmas pud and the approach of 'Stir Up Sunday', disabled children leaving home, and should universal child benefit end?
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Woman's Hour - 16/11/2010
With Jane Garvey. Why do so many powerful women choose to wear trouser-suits? Has Legally Blonde made no impact on the boardroom at all? Jo Swinson and Zenna Atkins discuss.
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Woman's Hour - 16/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: A Small Town Murder. Jacqui becomes convinced that Professor Hines's family know more about his murder than they are prepared to admit.
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Woman's Hour - 16/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. Women and the noughties: what's been achieved? Plus drama: Scumdog Millionaires.
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Woman's Hour - 16/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Sarah Phillips, a new young internet singing sensation.
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Woman's Hour - 17/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin. Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath (9/10).
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Woman's Hour - 17/01/2011
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including singer Wanda Jackson, the 'First Lady of Rockabilly'; violence against women in Mexico; Seville orange season; and the legacy of the Pill.
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Woman's Hour - 17/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Is there a lack of roles for older women on stage and screen? Jenni is joined by author and critic Bidisha and by Kate Harwood, Controller Series and Serials, BBC Drama Production.
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Woman's Hour - 17/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including singer Kathryn Williams, is being green anti-feminist, and are parents responsible for their children's crimes?
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Woman's Hour - 17/03/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
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Woman's Hour - 17/03/2008
With Ritula Shah. Drama: Bollywood Jane. Amanda Whittington's story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 17/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including the joys and perils of camping, portraits by the artist of their mothers and the symptoms of ovarian cancer. Plus drama Seeing is Believing.
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Woman's Hour - 17/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including the new children's commissioner, women and Parkour, feminism reclaiming the term 'victim', and does the 20-year itch exist?
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Woman's Hour - 17/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Sixth Column Has Better Legs. Gloria del Largo is determined the fighting will not stop her working as a chorus girl.
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Woman's Hour - 17/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Love My Rifle More than You. Kayla Williams's memoirs of a young female American soldier in Iraq (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 17/05/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama A Confidential Agent (Retired): 4/5. Liz and Gloria set out for Brussels to find the missing husband.
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Woman's Hour - 17/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Jane Ashley on photographing her mum Laura's iconic clothes. How do we view women who leave their children? Male rape in prison; music from Lucinda Belle.
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Woman's Hour - 17/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including Nigel Slater cooking nostalgia food and Eva Hoffman on her new novel. Plus the drama The Way We Live Right Now.
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Woman's Hour - 17/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Includes discussion on the power of female magazine editors, early menstruation and its links to health issues, olives and the naming of female genitalia.
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Woman's Hour - 17/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. After Al Gore and his wife announce their separation, we look at the rise in divorce rates here among those over 60.
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Woman's Hour - 17/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including the drama My Place. 2/5. In the search for her Aboriginal heritage, Sally brushes with authority and meets her great-uncle Arthur.
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Woman's Hour - 17/07/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including, Combating sexism in the armed forces.
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Woman's Hour - 17/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles.
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Woman's Hour - 17/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: The Crowded Street. Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment (5/10).
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Woman's Hour - 17/08/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including features on cleavage and life in Ceausescu's Romania. Including drama: Five Wedding Dresses.
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Woman's Hour - 17/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Children and asylum; a new commemorative coin for the Queen; getting pregnant after miscarriage; should there be quotas for women in the Irish Dail?
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Woman's Hour - 17/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: The Draw. Brian B Thompson's cautionary tale about the perils of online gambling (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 17/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Are strict routines harmful to a baby's development or just encouraging them to eat and sleep well?
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Woman's Hour - 17/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including William Shawcross on his biography of the Queen Mother, the sexualisation of young girls, and can being a mother enhance sporting prowess?
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Woman's Hour - 17/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Is being a tall girl a blessing or a curse? Plus the Anti Porn Men Project, and Romani life in the 1950s.
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Woman's Hour - 17/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Tenderness of Wolves. Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada (3/10).
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Woman's Hour - 17/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: The Color Purple. Dramatisation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 17/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including Lucy Moore on the Roaring Twenties, what makes an unfit parent and the Monday Panel.
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Woman's Hour - 17/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Will the Kelly reforms put women off from standing as MPs?; giving birth without support; and Audrey Hepburn's clothes. Including the drama Our Mutual Friend.
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Woman's Hour - 17/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Should classics be taught in schools? Page 3 forty years on. Is dying at home the model for a "good death"? Children In Need drama on Glasgow runaways.
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Woman's Hour - 17/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Flesh. Tilly Black's darkly funny tale of a journalist who takes on an assignment to write about the booming cosmetic surgery industry (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 17/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including Michael Parkinson on his autobiography, fairy godmothers, ceilidhs and childcare in the UK. Plus drama: A Small Town Murder.
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Woman's Hour - 17/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Twirling Tory Ann Widdecombe talks about her Strictly Come Dancing experience. Also, women and stress, and Eric Knowles on Pilkington Pottery.
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Woman's Hour - 18/01/2008
Jane Garvey takes a look at the impact of the Cuban elections on women. Including drama: We Need to Talk about Kevin (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 18/01/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including: Women in Northern Irish Politics, Bold Make Up in the recession, people who talk too much and teaching children about money and budgeting.
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Woman's Hour - 18/01/2011
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including singer Barbara Dickson on her new album and tour; how to get more women into chemistry and is the self-help industry making anyone happier?
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Woman's Hour - 18/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Faust. A reworking of the fable about a man who sells his soul to the devil (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 18/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including an interview with Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg as he prepares to take his paternity leave.
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Woman's Hour - 18/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Conservative Party leader David Cameron on winning women's votes and the intricate 18th-century artwork of Mrs Delany.
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Woman's Hour - 18/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including reports on the role of nuns in the current Tibetan unrest. Drama: Bollywood Jane. Story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 18/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including women in Zimbabwe, dating chemistry, Eurovision Song Contest controversy and crime writer Karen Campbell.
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Woman's Hour - 18/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including costume designer Sandy Powell on her third Oscar, Apache pilot Charlotte Madisson, Victoria and Albert in love, and cervical cancer screening.
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Woman's Hour - 18/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, by Sam Boardman-Jacobs. loria is determined to defeat fascism with fishnet tights and sequins.
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Woman's Hour - 18/04/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Love My Rifle More than You. Kayla Williams's memoirs of a young female American soldier in Iraq (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 18/05/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama: A Confidential Agent (Retired). 5/5. Liz discovers that Nicholas has some loyal friends and some frightening enemies.
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Woman's Hour - 18/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Why aren't there more women in the judiciary? And should women be able to sell their eggs due to the shortage of donors coming forward?
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Woman's Hour - 18/06/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (1/10).
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Woman's Hour - 18/06/2008
Jenni Murray and guests discuss healthcare for lesbians. Plus Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai and children's writer Philippa Pearce. Including the drama Way We Live Right Now.
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Woman's Hour - 18/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Actress Carol Drinkwater discusses her passion for the olive. Including drama: Diary of an On-Call Girl.
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Woman's Hour - 18/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Featuring an interview with writer Jackie Kay.
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Woman's Hour - 18/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including the drama My Place. 3/5. Sally's Aboriginal great-uncle Arthur tells how he was taken away from his Outback home and his mother.
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Woman's Hour - 18/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Martha Kearney meets Beth Chatto, one of the most influential gardeners in Britain.
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Woman's Hour - 18/08/2010
Jane Garvey asks whether gender is pre-determined, or the product of our environment.
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Woman's Hour - 18/09/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Draw. Brian B Thompson's cautionary tale about the perils of online gambling (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 18/09/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Is it right that childrens' body parts be used in the cosmetic industry? Professor Donna Dickenson examines the growth in what she calls 'body shopping'.
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Woman's Hour - 18/10/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Tenderness of Wolves. Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada (4/10).
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Woman's Hour - 18/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Fashionista Gok Wan on his autobiography Through Thick and Thin, and philanthropist Melinda Gates talks about her campaign to tackle global poverty.
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Woman's Hour - 18/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Saxophonist YolanDa Brown talks about supporting The Temptations, balancing the sax and her studies, and her plans to bring jazz to a whole new audience.
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Woman's Hour - 18/11/2009
With Jenni Murray, who explores if refusing to have children is selfish. Plus black mambas, prison babies and vampires.
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Woman's Hour - 18/11/2010
Jenni Murray presents a special programme devoted to what women want from maternity services now and in the future. Guests include childbirth guru Sheila Kitzinger.
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Woman's Hour - 18/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Flesh. Tilly Black's darkly funny tale of a journalist who takes on an assignment to write about the booming cosmetic surgery industry (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 18/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including direct action on obesity, taking partners to the office party and Victoria Hamilton on playing Viola in Twelfth Night. Plus drama: A Small Town Murder.
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Woman's Hour - 19/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Actor Bruce Byron talks to Jane about his experience of dieting. They are joined by the writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli, who has done a detox in Eastern Europe.
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Woman's Hour - 19/01/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Simon Carr on raising his sons alone, the demise of the dining room, and how do we change Britain's drinking culture?
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Woman's Hour - 19/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including actor Ruth Jones on portraying Hattie Jacques; the ethics of paying for a surrogate; polygamy in Iraq; and mothers and sons - your stories.
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Woman's Hour - 19/02/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including White Open Spaces - five writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity.
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Woman's Hour - 19/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Faust. A reworking of the fable about a man who sells his soul to the devil, adapted by Martin Jenkins and dramatised by Jonathan Holloway (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 19/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. What do you do when your child is implicated in a murder? Caroline, not her real name, tells her story.
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Woman's Hour - 19/03/2007
With Martha Kearney. Including part eleven of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 19/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including features on Budge Wilson's prequel to Anne of Green Gables, and toilets and women's health in the developing world. Plus Drama: Bollywood Jane (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 19/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including female representation in the European Parliament, disabled children and respite care and US singer Melody Gardot. Plus drama: Seeing is Believing.
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Woman's Hour - 19/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, by Sam Boardman-Jacobs. The theatre is on the verge of opening.
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Woman's Hour - 19/04/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. A look at how the army affects family life. And should doctors tell partners if a patient has an STD?
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Woman's Hour - 19/05/2008
With Jane Garvey. Featuring new thoughts on the family, a manifesto for old age and a live performance from Martha Wainwright. Including drama: Sister Agnes Investigates (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 19/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Kuwait's first female MPs, Icelanic crime writer Yrsa Sigurdardottir, and should foster parents' age matter?
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Woman's Hour - 19/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Caroline Lucas, the UK's first ever Green MP; actress Miranda Riason; Sierra Leone's First Lady, Sia Korome; and gender teaching in schools.
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Woman's Hour - 19/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (2/10).
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Woman's Hour - 19/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson (4/15).
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Woman's Hour - 19/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including the drama My Place. 4/5. Sally and her mum journey to Australia's north-western Outback, to the Aboriginal homeland of Nan and Arthur.
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Woman's Hour - 19/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey: Are you being served? The history and role of department stores, living where you grow up, Iranian hostage mother and music from The Unthanks.
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Woman's Hour - 19/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Malian musician Rokia Traore performs live and talks about her background, her musical influences and her career.
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Woman's Hour - 19/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing tight trunks versus baggy swimming trunks for men, Asian women and employment, sidecar racing and talking to author Ariana Franklin.
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Woman's Hour - 19/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. The southern belles who took Europe by storm, and the mothers driven to kill their children.
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Woman's Hour - 19/09/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Draw. Brian B Thompson's cautionary tale about the perils of online gambling (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 19/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Foreign correspondent Ann Leslie talks about 40 years of chasing stories.
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Woman's Hour - 19/10/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Tenderness of Wolves. Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada (5/10).
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Woman's Hour - 19/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Never too late? A special programme looking at relaunching yourself later in life. Why do it? What are the joys? And what about the pitfalls?
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Woman's Hour - 19/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (1/20).
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Woman's Hour - 19/11/2008
With Jenni Murray. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith joins Jenni to discuss the new government measures to protect vulnerable women and tackle the demand for prostitution.
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Woman's Hour - 19/11/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including tumble dryer vs pegs, should we all be drying our clothes on the line? Why politicians are courting the 'mums' vote, and TV screenwriter Lizzie Mickery.
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Woman's Hour - 19/11/2010
Jenni Murray is joined by Ray Winstone and his daughter Lois. Plus, how the women of Germany have got on since reunification; and how far would you go to stop sexist abuse?
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Woman's Hour - 19/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Flesh. Tilly Black's darkly funny tale of a journalist who takes on an assignment to write about the booming cosmetic surgery industry (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 19/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: A Small Town Murder. Agonising family secrets come to the surface as Sue finally catches Professor Hines's killer.
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Woman's Hour - 20/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including author Wendy Holden on her latest novel, Beautiful People, cyber-stalking and the Brook Street Band play Handel.
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Woman's Hour - 20/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including an authentic spag bol campaign, female ship builders, the reality of happy relationships, and our Winning Women's Votes series: GP Services.
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Woman's Hour - 20/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. British clothing sizes - why do they vary so much? Plus the ethics of fertility treatment when family members are involved in egg or sperm donation.
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Woman's Hour - 20/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including the stories of two girls who were abducted at the age of ten and differences in the perception of female beauty. Plus drama: Faust (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 20/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Are women being provided with the full facts when they go for breast cancer screening? Jenni is joined by Prof Stephen Duffy and Dr Paul Pharoah.
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Woman's Hour - 20/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including part twelve of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 20/03/2008
With Jane Little. Drama: Bollywood Jane. Amanda Whittington's story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 20/03/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Seeing is Believing, by Sian Evans. A family crisis forces Jon to reconsider everything.
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Woman's Hour - 20/04/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including drama The Sixth Column Has Better Legs, by Sam Boardman-Jacobs. The theatre is open and the revue is a success.
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Woman's Hour - 20/04/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Is the shampoo and set having a revival? Mamphela Ramphele on the future of South Africa, author Helen Simpson and nursing in the Falklands.
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Woman's Hour - 20/05/2008
Jenni Murray presents a special programme on attitudes to fertility and the assumptions that underlie them. Including drama: Sister Agnes Investigates (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 20/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Is 'having it all' a myth? Plus Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Rita Dove discusses her new book, and a profile of Lithuania's first female President.
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Woman's Hour - 20/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Plaits - we follow the current hair trend through history.
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Woman's Hour - 20/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (3/10).
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Woman's Hour - 20/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson.
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Woman's Hour - 20/07/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama My Place. 5/5. In Perth, Australia, mum and nan come to terms with their Aboriginal family history and tell Sally their stories.
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Woman's Hour - 20/07/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Macy Gray performs in the studio from her new album 'The Sellout'; urinary problems in men, how best to help; plus Clare Balding talks about bikes.
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Woman's Hour - 20/08/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama The Crowded Street. 6/10. Muriel's sister Connie returns home unexpectedly with startling news.
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Woman's Hour - 20/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Iraqi MP Maysoon Al-Damluji claims that women's rights are being sidelined in her country.
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Woman's Hour - 20/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing male victims of domestic violence, the mystery of musical hallucinations, women's fight for tertiary education and rapper Speech Debelle.
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Woman's Hour - 20/08/2010
Presented by Bidisha. Jeans - when should you give them up?; mixed sex wards in mental health; singer Rose Elinor Dougall; Irish comic Peadar de Burca on his show Why Men Cheat.
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Woman's Hour - 20/09/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Draw. Brian B Thompson's cautionary tale about the perils of online gambling (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 20/09/2010
Child Sexual Exploitation - how gangs groom and sexually exploit children in Britain. Presented by Jane Garvey.
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Woman's Hour - 20/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Political journalist John Sergeant talks appearing on Strictly Come Dancing, his role in the ousting of Mrs Thatcher and how he is coming to terms with being a modern-day sex symbol.
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Woman's Hour - 20/10/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including the pros and cons of eco design, a tour round the new Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens, and young women and binge drinking - what's the solution?
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Woman's Hour - 20/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Audrey Niffenegger on her new novel The Night Bookmobile, and will pre-nuptial agreements become law? Plus Dutch singing sensation Caro Emerald.
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Woman's Hour - 20/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (2/20).
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Woman's Hour - 20/11/2008
With Jenni Murray. Where does the boundary lie between online and real world relationships? Is cheating in a virtual world ever grounds for divorce?
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Woman's Hour - 20/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Flesh. Tilly Black's darkly funny tale of a journalist who takes on an assignment to write about the booming cosmetic surgery industry (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 20/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Festive phone in about your family Christmas traditions with studio guests columnist Lucy Mangan and writer Christina Hardyment.
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Woman's Hour - 21/01/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Xiaolu Guo's romantic comedy about two lovers who don't speak each other's language (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 21/01/2009
Jenni Murray presents a feminism special, including contributions from Professor Angela McRobbie, Zoe Williams, Rosie Boycott, Vera Baird QC MP.
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Woman's Hour - 21/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Julie Walters on playing Mo Mowlam, the sexual politics of sleep and should we re-introduce black for mourning?
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Woman's Hour - 21/01/2011
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Street Cheer, a mix of street dance and cheerleading; Alison Gangel on her Book of the Week; and Gorbachev's granddaughter on Gorby at 80.
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Woman's Hour - 21/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including White Open Spaces - five writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity. 3/5. Two Men in the Fog, by Sonali Bhattacharyya.
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Woman's Hour - 21/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Faust. A reworking of the fable about a man who sells his soul to the devil, adapted by Martin Jenkins and dramatised by Jonathan Holloway (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 21/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including part thirteen of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 21/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Bollywood Jane. Amanda Whittington's story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 21/03/2009
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including reports on a student branch of the WI, women in EU politics and Eurovision song contest controversy.
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Woman's Hour - 21/04/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Miriam O'Reilly.
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Woman's Hour - 21/04/2008
Jane Garvey is joined by Doreen Lawrence, 15 years after her son's death. Drama: An Expert in Murder. Murder mystery by Nicola Upson set in 1934, blending fact with fiction (1/10).
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Woman's Hour - 21/04/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including the announcement of the Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist. Plus drama: Lady Audley's Secret.
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Woman's Hour - 21/04/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. As the Icelandic Volcano continues to disrupt travel, how to deal with extended stays by house guests. Plus live music from pianist Clara Rodriguez.
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Woman's Hour - 21/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Infertility phone-in. Does society place too high a value on parenthood? Including drama: Sister Agnes Investigates. Murder mystery by Alison Joseph (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 21/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing what should be done to help young people with ME; rower Sarah Outen joins the programme from the Indian Ocean; plus a look at Hypatia of Alexandria.
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Woman's Hour - 21/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The portrayal of women on Italian TV; the perils of cheap fertility drugs; and Welsh suffragette Lady Rhondda and the feminist journal 'Time and Tide'.
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Woman's Hour - 21/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (4/10).
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Woman's Hour - 21/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Family benefits - what could be cut in the budget? Adult sleep problems. Surviving as the parent of a sexually-abused child.
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Woman's Hour - 21/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Should parents disclose their children's HIV status? A mother talks to Felicity Finch about the dilemma of revealing her daughter's HIV status to school staff.
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Woman's Hour - 21/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Dr Who star Karen Gillan talks about role in the hit TV show. Gay couple Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow talk about their lives as parents to five kids.
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Woman's Hour - 21/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Crowded Street. 7/10. Muriel has gone to stay with Connie in the Yorkshire Moors.
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Woman's Hour - 21/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Do we need to stop viewing the 60's through rose-tinted glasses?
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Woman's Hour - 21/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing why people choose to become celibate and how older women are bucking unemployment trends.
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Woman's Hour - 21/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: The Draw. Brian B Thompson's cautionary tale about the perils of online gambling (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 21/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Jane Clark, widow of former Conservative MP Alan Clark, plus mandolin virtuoso Alison Stephens, children and bedwetting, and addressing parents' needs.
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Woman's Hour - 21/09/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Indian cookery queen Madhur Jaffrey talks about easy curries. Should schools move to a five-term year? And, the problems of thinning hair.
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Woman's Hour - 21/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Dame Karlene Davis discusses leaving the Royal College of Midwives and Emma Sergeant talks about painting celebrity.
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Woman's Hour - 21/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Melanie C, women in the City, work, breast reconstruction and mastectomy, and have maternity rights gone too far? Plus drama: The Dead Hour.
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Woman's Hour - 21/10/2010
Including celebrity photographer Mary McCartney and hypnotic gastric bands - do they reallly work? Plus how was Edgar Allan Poe influenced by the women in his life?
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Woman's Hour - 21/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (3/20).
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Woman's Hour - 21/11/2008
With Jenni Murray. Susan Anne Sulley and Joanne Catherall from The Human League explain how the band has managed to stay together over the last three decades.
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Woman's Hour - 21/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Flesh. Tilly Black's darkly funny tale of a journalist who takes on an assignment to write about the booming cosmetic surgery industry (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 21/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Penelope Cruz, the meaning of Christmas, poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, women and debt, the new popularity of real-life literature.
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Woman's Hour - 21/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest.
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Woman's Hour - 22/01/2008
Jenni Murray presents a special programme celebrating Simone de Beauvoir in her centennial year and discussing her 1949 book The Second Sex and her influence on French politics.
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Woman's Hour - 22/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Listeners share their views on feminism, including those who have managed work and family and how it relates to young women today.
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Woman's Hour - 22/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including White Open Spaces - five writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity. 4/5. Mountain Knows Me, by Rommi Smith.
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Woman's Hour - 22/02/2008
With Ritula Shah. Including drama: Faust. A reworking of the fable about a man who sells his soul to the devil, adapted by Martin Jenkins and dramatised by Jonathan Holloway (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 22/02/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including outgoing Amnesty International secretary general Irene Khan, the growth of women's rugby, and is Sarah Palin a credible candidate for president?
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Woman's Hour - 22/03/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including part fourteen of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 22/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including regulation of home schooling, quilts at the V and A, female solar engineers in Asia, and is time alone essential or a luxury for mothers?
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Woman's Hour - 22/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: An Expert in Murder. Murder mystery by Nicola Upson set in 1934, blending fact with fiction (2/10).
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Woman's Hour - 22/04/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Sinead O'Connor, dealing with the death of a pet, a victory over discrimination at work and Azar Nafisi on her new book. Drama: Lady Audley's Secret.
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Woman's Hour - 22/04/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Writer Trezza Azzopardi on her new book about memory and music.
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Woman's Hour - 22/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Sister Agnes Investigates. Murder mystery by Alison Joseph (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 22/06/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the Drama Life Class. 5/10. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War.
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Woman's Hour - 22/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. With Motown star Martha Reeves. Including drama: The Art of Deception.
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Woman's Hour - 22/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. What does current policy reveal about how we view pregnant women? Where are the young women Wimbledon stars? And seasonal jams and preserves.
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Woman's Hour - 22/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Veg expert Greg Wallace on how to get children to eat their vegetables.
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Woman's Hour - 22/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing parents' reactions to their children joining the Forces; the allure of sequins; a tribute to Natalia Estemirova and an interview with Abi Grant.
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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.
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Woman's Hour - 22/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Crowded Street. Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment (8/10).
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Woman's Hour - 22/08/2008
With Jane Little. Are images of skinny post-pregnant celebrities sending the wrong message about motherhood?
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Woman's Hour - 22/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Twiggy joins Jane to share her secrets and pass on her make-up and fashion tips for looking and feeling fabulous in your forties and beyond.
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Woman's Hour - 22/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including bestselling author Cecelia Ahern on her new novel, our love affair with 70s junk food, and Heidi Kastner, the psychiatrist who worked with Josef Fritzl.
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Woman's Hour - 22/09/2010
Jenni Murray talks to Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert. Plus, discussion of female genital mutilation in the UK, and the cententary of the chainmakers strike.
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Woman's Hour - 22/10/2007
Including the drama The Tenderness of Wolves. 6/10. Mrs Ross' son has been found, recovering from a near-fatal fall. Inspector Moody remains convinced of his guilt.
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Woman's Hour - 22/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. BBC political correspondent Jo Coburn discusses whether the topic of flexible working will cease to be a political priority during an economic downturn.
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Woman's Hour - 22/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. A special programme celebrating 80 years since the publication of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Including Hermione Lee, Susan Sellers and Val McDermid.
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Woman's Hour - 22/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Should more money go on breast cancer prevention rather than cure? Also Jeanette Winterson and the Manchester sermon, and women working together.
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Woman's Hour - 22/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (4/20).
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Woman's Hour - 22/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Women and the role silence plays in their spiritual lives, female unemployment, primogeniture, singles therapy, and a documentary on Islamabad bombings.
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Woman's Hour - 22/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Children's author Judith Kerr talks about her life and work.
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Woman's Hour - 22/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including the unfit maths teacher now training to be an Olympic star, Iranian men in headscarves and champagne or sparkling wine - what's best for Christmas?
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Woman's Hour - 22/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Featuring the best ways to cook brassicas, Sarah Driver Jowitt on the 'miracle baby' of Haiti, and the rising profile of the older woman on TV.
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Woman's Hour - 23/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Xiaolu Guo's romantic comedy about two lovers who don't speak each other's language (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 23/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. The Belle Star Band, one of Scotland's top all-women dance bands, join Jenni to chat, play and to put some of the Woman's Hour team through a crash course in Ceilidh dancing.
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Woman's Hour - 23/02/2007
With Martha Kearney. Including White Open Spaces - five writers explore our attitudes towards race, environment and identity. 5/5. Letting Yourself Go, by Kara Miller.
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Woman's Hour - 23/02/2009
With Jane Garvey. Plus Connie Fisher on how she went from telesales girl to West End star?
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Woman's Hour - 23/02/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including the appeal of Delaroche's Lady Jane Grey. Should you put your marriage or your children first? How should the parties appeal to younger voters?
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Woman's Hour - 23/03/2007
With Jane Little. Including the final part of The Women's Room, Sarah Daniels's dramatisation of Marilyn French's novel.
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Woman's Hour - 23/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Delia Smith on her new compendium of recipes and an extended panel discussion about children and divorce.
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Woman's Hour - 23/03/2010
With Jane Garvey. Getting more teenage mums to stay in education, Eleanor Rathbone's work with Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe, and live music from trumpeter Sue Richardson.
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Woman's Hour - 23/04/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the drama A Normal Life, Jackie Pavlenko's story of a young mother newly released from prison. Josh is looking forward to Diane's release.
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Woman's Hour - 23/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: An Expert in Murder. Murder mystery by Nicola Upson set in 1934, blending fact with fiction (3/10).
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Woman's Hour - 23/04/2010
Presented by Sheila McClennan. We discuss keeping ferrets - no longer a Northern, male preserve.
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Woman's Hour - 23/05/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Sister Agnes Investigates. Murder mystery by Alison Joseph.
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Woman's Hour - 23/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Featuring Jennifer Worth on being a midwife. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's novel. 6/15. Paul Montague is visited by an old friend.
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Woman's Hour - 23/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. Can the new Speaker change the 'gentleman's club' culture of Parliament? Delaying childbirth - are women to blame? Including drama: The Art of Deception.
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Woman's Hour - 23/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Who decides what constitutes a 'perfect' body? Theodora in history; new guidelines on Meningitis; jazz from Nnenna Freelon.
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Woman's Hour - 23/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including at 10.45am Drama: 43 Years in the Third Form. A celebration of the great girls' comics from the 50s to the 80s, by Jane Purcell (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 23/07/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon, from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 1/10. 5,000 Rupees. Part of India and Pakistan '07 season.
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Woman's Hour - 23/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. How easy is it to take a break from the daily grind? Jenni discusses the merits and problems of switching off with columnist Amanda Platell and fiction writer Wendy Perriam.
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Woman's Hour - 23/07/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing if it is healthier to breastfeed; looking at the 17th Century lepidopterist Lady Eleanor Glanville; and chatting to Australian 'sexpert' Bettina Arndt.
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Woman's Hour - 23/07/2010
Presented by Sheila McClennon. The mining industry's Coal Queens. Talking to the Taliban - what do Afghani women think? Should Latin names make a comeback in gardening?
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Woman's Hour - 23/08/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: The Crowded Street. Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment (9/10).
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Woman's Hour - 23/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Is there too much sex in pop music? Is the discipline expounded in the film The Karate Kid good for children? Plus, one woman's return to Kabul.
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Woman's Hour - 23/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. How is the Labour Party renewing its appeal to women voters? Jane talks to Harriet Harman.
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Woman's Hour - 23/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Shirley Williams, music from the violinist Nicola Benedetti, and what makes a good political leader? Plus drama: The Man in the Wooden Hat.
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Woman's Hour - 23/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including how will the new Labour leader reach out to women? Can too much care undermine autonomy in the elderly? Plus student confidentiality.
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Woman's Hour - 23/10/2007
Including the drama The Tenderness of Wolves. 7/10. Mrs Ross has arrived at Hanover House, a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company.
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Woman's Hour - 23/10/2008
With Jane Garvey. Kelly Brook, who is currently making her stage debut in Neil LaBute's dark comedy Fat Pig, joins Jane to discuss bodies, bikinis and boyfriends.
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Woman's Hour - 23/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (5/20).
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Woman's Hour - 23/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Anorexia and having a baby: what's the emotional impact of the disease on new mothers? Also: underwear and how to make winter vegetables appetising.
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Woman's Hour - 23/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Arsenal and England striker Kelly Smith joins Jane to talk about being one of the world's top female football players.
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Woman's Hour - 23/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Listener phone-in on how to survive the family Christmas, with agony aunt Deidre Sanders. Including the drama Someone Like You.
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Woman's Hour - 23/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest.
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Woman's Hour - 24/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Xiaolu Guo's romantic comedy about two lovers who don't speak each other's language (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 24/01/2011
With Jane Garvey. Bedbugs - are they on the rise in the UK? Film-maker Beeban Kidron talks about the Indian Devadasi. How do twins and multiple births affect their elder siblings?
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Woman's Hour - 24/02/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
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Woman's Hour - 24/02/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including writer Yasmin Alibhai Brown, the new hats exhibition at the V and A and a discussion of proposed new autism lesgislation
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Woman's Hour - 24/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including the fashion for the trenchcoat, and the history of flamenco.
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Woman's Hour - 24/03/2007
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Little.
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Woman's Hour - 24/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Cheri. Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris before WWI (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 24/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. When was the last time you spared a word for the person working at the supermarket check-out?
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Woman's Hour - 24/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including painter Maggi Hambling talking about a new exhibition of her work and a discussion about what parents should disclose about their children's conception.
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Woman's Hour - 24/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama A Normal Life. The practicalities of trying to make a life together cause serious problems for both Diane and her son Josh.
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Woman's Hour - 24/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Drama: An Expert in Murder. Murder mystery by Nicola Upson set in 1934, blending fact with fiction (4/10).
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Woman's Hour - 24/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Diane Abbott on her bid to become leader of the Labour Party; WAG culture and role models for young women today; sibling rivalry; the perfect vinaigrette.
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Woman's Hour - 24/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Deborah Voigt talks about her return to the Royal Opera House, and Christina Lamb discusses women in Zimbabwe. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now.
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Woman's Hour - 24/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including one mother's fight to ban legal 'party drugs', 18th-century playwright Elizabeth Inchbald and food sell-by dates. Plus drama: The Art of Deception.
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Woman's Hour - 24/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Moira Buffini on her new play Welcome to Thebes, Julie Nicholson on losing her daughter in the July 7th bombings, and British women and the menopause.
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Woman's Hour - 24/07/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including at 10.45am Drama: 43 Years in the Third Form. A celebration of the great girls' comics from the 1950s to the 80s, by Jane Purcell (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 24/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. How does growing up above the shop affect family life? Author Catherine O'Flynn and lawyer and restauranteur Helen Tse discuss what it was like to help out in the family business.
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Woman's Hour - 24/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: The Crowded Street. Diana Griffiths's dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey into self-fulfilment (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 24/08/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing if boredom can be good for kids; England's chances in the UEFA Women's Championship; India's gender ratio and Sarah Gabriel on her experience of cancer.
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Woman's Hour - 24/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Women at the top - is it really a choice between kids and career? Plus the women of Rome, a knitting conference in Shetland and Alzheimers awareness.
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Woman's Hour - 24/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: A Short History of Longing. Shelagh Stephenson's comic study of loneliness through the authors of personal ads in newspapers and magazines (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 24/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Professor Helen Cross talks to Jane about the latest developments in the treatment of childhood epilepsy.
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Woman's Hour - 24/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Mary Berry on her new Baking Bible, Hengemah Shahidi, the pro-democracy journalist imprisoned in Iran, and why still so few women in the boardroom?
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Woman's Hour - 24/09/2010
Move over Rover! Jenny Murray looks at the rise of the rabbit - now the UK's third most popular house pet. Plus, gender medicine - testing drugs for their specific effect on women.
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Woman's Hour - 24/10/2007
Including the drama The Tenderness of Wolves. 8/10. Mrs Ross pieces some connections together and makes a discovery that turns her world upside down.
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Woman's Hour - 24/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. How often should grown up children call their parents? And who should make the first move?
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Woman's Hour - 24/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Why are there so few so-called big idea books written by women? Jane is joined by the historian and novelist Lisa Appignanesi and the literary agent Catherine Clarke.
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Woman's Hour - 24/11/2009
Jane Garvey asks if children should do more chores around the home, and if dinner parties are on the decline. Plus a biography of Gertude Stein and Alice B Toklas.
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Woman's Hour - 24/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest.
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Woman's Hour - 24/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: MR James at Christmas. Derek Jacobi as the voice of MR James introduces classic ghost stories (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 24/12/2008
With Jenni Murray. Why do we feel glamorous as soon as we put a red dress on? Jenni is joined by stylist Jay Hunt and the presenter Gabby Logan, to discuss the dos and don'ts of scarlet.
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Woman's Hour - 24/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Rebecca Stott on her new novel The Coral Thief, and reflecting on the joys of a sing-song - should every house have a piano?
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Woman's Hour - 24/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The future of competitive sport in schools; sapphires versus diamonds; walking solo; and cornet player Laura Hirst.
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Woman's Hour - 25/01/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers. Xiaolu Guo's romantic comedy about two lovers who don't speak each other's language (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 25/01/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Sophie Okenedo on playing Winnie Mandela, post-baby tummy cinch, and winning women's votes in the general election: who should run schools?
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Woman's Hour - 25/01/2011
Presented by Jane Garvey. How will family finances change as new benefits are introduced? Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - what should the police response be? And Spring fashions.
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Woman's Hour - 25/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Black Narcissus. Rumer Godden's tale of a group of nuns who establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. 1/5: Arrival.
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Woman's Hour - 25/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. When is the right time to start a new relationship after the death of a spouse? Deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats Vince Cable joins Jenni to talk about his own experience.
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Woman's Hour - 25/02/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including John Barrowman on show tunes, 40 years since the first feminist conference, winning the baby boomer vote, and Lesley Sharp on Ibsen's Ghosts.
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Woman's Hour - 25/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Cheri. Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris before WWI (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 25/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including ukeleles, women facing discrimination while on maternity leave, female diplomats and women in sport.
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Woman's Hour - 25/03/2010
With Jenni Murray. How legal changes in England and Wales affect prostitution; and actress Naomie Harris on her TV drama Blood and Oil.
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Woman's Hour - 25/04/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama A Normal Life. Janet's plans for Josh's future cause Diane to take drastic action.
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Woman's Hour - 25/04/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: An Expert in Murder. Murder mystery by Nicola Upson set in 1934, blending fact with fiction (5/10).
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Woman's Hour - 25/05/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. American soprano Renee Fleming, the UK's youngest mayor, choreographer Susan Stroman and Bobby Baker talks about her diary drawings, Mental Illness and Me.
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Woman's Hour - 25/06/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (6/10).
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Woman's Hour - 25/06/2008
Jenni Murray discusses tribal life in Ecuador, domestic violence within lesbian relationships and grumpy old couples. Including part eight of the drama Way We Live Right Now.
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Woman's Hour - 25/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including the future of Silvio Berlusconi, what can be done about the sperm donor shortage and the enduring myth of Medea. Plus drama: The Art of Deception.
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Woman's Hour - 25/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Maternity services, childhood memories of the Channel Islands' Occupation, Australia's new female PM, The Wire's Sonja Sohn, and the perfect personal.
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Woman's Hour - 25/07/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including at 10.45am Drama: 43 Years in the Third Form. A celebration of the great girls' comics from the 1950s to the 80s, by Jane Purcell (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 25/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including features on paternal responsibility and the Dr Who theme tune, plus the Friday Panel.
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Woman's Hour - 25/08/2008
As the first ever radio dramatisation of her iconic 20th century novel, The Golden Notebook, begins on Radio 4, Doris Lessing talks about her life and work.
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Woman's Hour - 25/08/2009
With Jane Garvey. Discussing gender testing, uninsured midwives and buying new school shoes. Including drama: The Quest.
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Woman's Hour - 25/08/2010
Is withdrawing benefits the best way to get lone parents back to work? Plus author Wendy Perriam on the unlikely hero of her latest novel. Presented by Jane Garvey.
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Woman's Hour - 25/09/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: A Short History of Longing. Shelagh Stephenson's comic study of loneliness through the authors of personal ads in newspapers and magazines (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 25/09/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Swing Out Sister's Corinne Drewery, Andy Connell and Martin Jackson join Sheila in the studio to perform a track from their new album Beautiful Mess.
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Woman's Hour - 25/10/2007
Including the drama The Tenderness of Wolves. 9/10. Mrs Ross decides that the only way to prove her son's innocence is to risk her own life.
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Woman's Hour - 25/10/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Lucinda Lambton on The Queen's Dolls' House, returning to work after having children and violinist Tasmin Little plays Elgar.
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Woman's Hour - 25/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Are we doing our children a disservice by constantly praising them? Jane is joined by authors Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer and Sue Jenner.
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Woman's Hour - 25/11/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Zadie Smith on her new collection of essays, the government's new strategy on domestic violence, and should men be present at the birth?
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Woman's Hour - 25/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. India Knight discusses the highs and lows of a family Christmas and the work of the woman who led a team of reconstruction workers in Afghanistan.
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Woman's Hour - 25/12/2008
Presented by Jenni Murray. Featuring the pick of the year's music and guests, including Dawn French, Vanessa Mae and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Woman's Hour - 26/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Are women workers more at risk in the recession? Jane is joined by the BBC's political correspondent Vicky Young.
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Woman's Hour - 26/01/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Sue Tollefsen on childbirth at 60, Randa Habib on the Jordanian Royal Family, China's gender imbalance, and the 'grandmas' restaurant in New York.
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Woman's Hour - 26/01/2011
With Jenni Murray. The sexism row in football, first woman of British theatre Rosemary Squire, Kathryn Bolkovac, Liz Lochhead and the joys of hoolahooping.
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Woman's Hour - 26/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp. The Marriage Settlement.
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Woman's Hour - 26/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Black Narcissus. Rumer Godden's tale of a group of nuns who establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. 2/5: The Young General.
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Woman's Hour - 26/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including coping with the death of a sibling, Saudi women's rights, three-way polyamorist relationships and how to cook leeks.
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Woman's Hour - 26/03/2007
Presented by Ritula Shah and featuring the drama Celluloid Extras.
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Woman's Hour - 26/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Cheri. Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris before WWI (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 26/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Russian singer and violinist Marina Laslo talks about her life, and sings live in the studio.
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Woman's Hour - 26/04/2007
As Lady Myre's frustration with Pitcairn Island grows increasingly comical, Diana addresses the complex issues faced by the isolated community. Read by Eleanor Bron.
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Woman's Hour - 26/04/2010
Jane Garvey discusses the history of fine dining, Chloe Schama on her new book, the art of Maori female facial tattooing and choosing to go it alone as a mother.
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Woman's Hour - 26/05/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships, set in 1950, about two women in pursuit of happiness.
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Woman's Hour - 26/05/2009
With Jane Garvey. Clare Short, Amanda Platell and Lynn Faulds Wood discuss what makes a good MP and discussion on supporting your partner through breast cancer.
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Woman's Hour - 26/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Are social networking sites taking over your children's lives? Also, childhood constipation, ceramicist Emma Bridgewater and equal pay in the recession.
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Woman's Hour - 26/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (7/10).
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Woman's Hour - 26/06/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including The Way We Live Right Now, Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty. 9/15. Mehmoud plans to triumph at the Powercure Ball.
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Woman's Hour - 26/06/2009
With Jenni Murray. Women in the RAF, school discipline, Aids adoption & control freaks.
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Woman's Hour - 26/07/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama, 43 Years in the Third Form. 4/5. On election night in 1979, Mary is out on a date.
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Woman's Hour - 26/07/2010
Presented by Bidisha. Are women getting the most from new phone technology? How to be thrifty with the 'green granny' Barbara Walmsley. Orange prize winner Barbara Kingsolver.
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Woman's Hour - 26/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Jenni is joined by Jean Rea from the National Childcare Trust and medical historian Ornella Mosucci to discuss the history and current practice of sharing breast milk.
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Woman's Hour - 26/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Do children have too much power in the family?; children's author Michelle Paver; living with a deaf spouse or partner; women and a new Penguin anthology.
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Woman's Hour - 26/08/2010
Jane Garvey talks to an artist reunited with the son she gave up for adoption about the sketches she made in his first days of life and how they came to influence her work.
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Woman's Hour - 26/09/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: A Short History of Longing. Shelagh Stephenson's comic study of loneliness through the authors of personal ads in newspapers and magazines (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 26/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. The Friday Panel discuss Sarah Brown's support for her husband and working for tough male bosses.
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Woman's Hour - 26/10/2007
Including drama: The Tenderness of Wolves. Chris Dolan's dramatisation of Stef Penney's tale of love, mystery and murder set in 1860s Canada (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 26/10/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including Sarah Gristwood on the filming of Breakfast at Tiffany's; the joys and perils of seeking the good-life abroad and should you put children on a diet?
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Woman's Hour - 26/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (6/20).
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Woman's Hour - 26/11/2008
With Jenni Murray. What impact has greater gender equality had on the types of issues debated by politicians and the way in which those debates are conducted?
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Woman's Hour - 26/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Kate Humble on her new role as president of the RSPB, women in prison, and how has the monarchy changed during Elizabeth's reign?
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Woman's Hour - 26/11/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Picky Eaters - Do we indulge children and adults too much?
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Woman's Hour - 26/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: MR James at Christmas. Derek Jacobi as the voice of MR James introduces classic ghost stories (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 26/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including Imelda Staunton on her latest film role and Somali MP Asha Hagi Elmi. Plus the drama Old Peter's Russian Tales.
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Woman's Hour - 27/01/2009
With Jane Garvey. Lindsey Bareham, author of A Celebration of Soup, who prepares some dishes, suggests some recipes and shares some helpful soup-making tips.
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Woman's Hour - 27/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Maternity Matters; Winning Women's Votes - testing in schools; classical saxophonist Amy Dickson.
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Woman's Hour - 27/01/2011
With Jenni Murray. Including women playing male Shakespearean roles. Are milk teeth being neglected? Maria Sveland, author of Bitter Bitch; and women and computer gaming.
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Woman's Hour - 27/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp. The Tete a Tete.
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Woman's Hour - 27/02/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Black Narcissus. Rumer Godden's tale of a group of nuns who establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. 3/5: The New Chapel.
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Woman's Hour - 27/02/2009
With Jenni Murray. Woman's Hour remembers actress Wendy Richard, best known for the characters Pauline Fowler, from EastEnders, and the buxom Miss Brahms in the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served?
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Woman's Hour - 27/03/2007
Presented by Jenni Murray and featuring the drama Celluloid Extras.
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Woman's Hour - 27/03/2008
With Jane Little. Drama: Cheri. Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris before WWI (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 27/03/2009
With Sheila McClennon. How long should bereaved parents have to wait before they can adopt?
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Woman's Hour - 27/04/2007
With Ritula Shah. Including the drama A Normal Life. Josh brings matters to a head, and Diane is forced to bow to the inevitable.
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Woman's Hour - 27/04/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. To what extent is the way you vote determined by your parents' politics? And author Helen Dunmore on her novel 'The Betrayal' set in Leningrad in 1952.
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Woman's Hour - 27/05/2008
Jenni Murray discusses growing up in a cult and equality law in Northern Ireland, and Jane Treays talks about junior beauty pageants. Including drama: Jane and Prudence (2/10).
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Woman's Hour - 27/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Talking to pop's Little Boots and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden and discussing teenage mums mentoring other teenage mums and the radicalisation of Pakistani women.
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Woman's Hour - 27/05/2010
With Jenni Murray. Child psychologist Oliver James on his latest advice for parents.
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Woman's Hour - 27/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (8/10).
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Woman's Hour - 27/06/2008
Looking at women in the lives of teenage boys, with Professor Janet Benshoof and the Friday Panel. Including The Way We Live Right Now, 10/15.
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Woman's Hour - 27/07/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Including at 10.45am Drama: 43 Years in the Third Form. 5/5. A celebration of the great girls' comics from the 50s to the 80s, by Jane Purcell.
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Woman's Hour - 27/07/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: India and Pakistan '07: Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 5/10: 500,000 Rupees.
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Woman's Hour - 27/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. 21 years of the Asian theatre company Tamasha, Victoria Wood talks about landmines in Laos, and death by stoning - what is the current world situation?
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Woman's Hour - 27/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: Ladies of Letters Say No, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Comic heroines Irene and Vera return in combative mood (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 27/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. Is decriminalising prostitution the way to make sex workers safe? Jenni is joined by Jean Johnson and Shirley Landels from Hampshire Women's Institute.
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Woman's Hour - 27/08/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Nicky Campbell on the male mid-life crisis; American poet Sharon Olds; and mouth cancer and HPV. Plus drama: The Quest.
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Woman's Hour - 27/08/2010
New research suggests having a sister makes you happier, and protects you from depression. Bidisha asks why is having a sister different to having a brother?
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Woman's Hour - 27/09/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: A Short History of Longing. Shelagh Stephenson's comic study of loneliness through the authors of personal ads in newspapers and magazines (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 27/09/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Gifted lives: what happens when gifted children grow up? Nano scientist Ijeoma Uchegbu, Women and architecture, Goldman Sachs class action by women.
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Woman's Hour - 27/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including the Monday Panel, a lively look at the issues of the week.
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Woman's Hour - 27/10/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Patricia Cornwell on her latest Kay Scarpetta novel, juries' expectations of rape victims, celebrating suffragette voices, and hankies versus tissues.
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Woman's Hour - 27/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including the Bollywood superstar Preity Zinta. Life running a ferry service in Southwold, Gee walker and women philosophers - why so few in UK academia?
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Woman's Hour - 27/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (7/20).
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Woman's Hour - 27/11/2008
With Jane Garvey. Celebrated pianist Kathryn Stott tells Jenni about her new CD of dances which, in true eclectic style, includes Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Piazzolla and Satie.
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Woman's Hour - 27/12/2007
With Jenni Murray. Jenni speaks to Erinma Bell, chairwoman of Carisma - an organisation challenging gang culture.
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Woman's Hour - 27/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Jane revisits the best international items and guests of 2010 including stories of captivity and freedom from Ingrid Betancourt and Natascha Kampusch.
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Woman's Hour - 28/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Interpreter II. Anjum Malik's second series about a freelance translator. 1/5: Nina hears a shocking revelation at a family court.
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Woman's Hour - 28/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. TV presenter Graham Norton discusses his role in the musical La Cage aux Folles.
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Woman's Hour - 28/01/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Dame Jane Goodall on saving extinct species, Ruth Padel on writing her first novel, and is university the best way forward for young people?
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Woman's Hour - 28/01/2011
With Jenni Murray. What time should children be tucked up in bed, and is Michelle Obama the first African American Woman to resist historical stereotypes?
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Woman's Hour - 28/02/2007
With Jenni Murray. Including Marriage a la Mode, by Jonathan Myerson. Mr and Mrs William Hogarth return in another scandalous romp. The Inspection.
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Woman's Hour - 28/02/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including drama: Black Narcissus. Rumer Godden's tale of a group of nuns who establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. 4/5: Departures.
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Woman's Hour - 28/03/2007
Presented by Jenni Murray and including the drama: Celluloid Extras.
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Woman's Hour - 28/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Drama: Cheri. Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris before WWI (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 28/03/2009
Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Delia Smith on her life and career; women and sport; female ambassadors working in Russia and Spain.
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Woman's Hour - 28/04/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including the drama An Expert in Murder, Nicola Upson's murder mystery set in 1934, that blends fact with fiction (6/10).
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Woman's Hour - 28/04/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including opening up the family courts, baby-led weaning, out and about with three Arsenal fans and how to grow carrots. Including drama: Lady Audley's Secret.
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Woman's Hour - 28/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Can leaving your baby to cry be harmful? Maggie O'Farrell talks about her new novel and the history of the Horrockses fashion label.
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Woman's Hour - 28/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including an interview with Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon. Drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships (3/10).
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Woman's Hour - 28/05/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including the novelist Roma Tearne on her Sri Lankan ancestry; keeping quiet about miscarriage and does the UN need a specialist Department for Women?
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Woman's Hour - 28/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code; sweeping hems - the maxi dress is back; Freizeitstresse - German form of 'Free Time Stress'.
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Woman's Hour - 28/06/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (9/10).
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Woman's Hour - 28/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer-songwriter Judy Collins performs live, Dame Elisabeth Hoodless on volunteering, and how changes to audiology training could affect the deaf.
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Woman's Hour - 28/07/2008
With Jane Garvey. Jennie Rooney talks about the themes in her novel Inside The Whale.
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Woman's Hour - 28/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell on her novel Geezer Girls; asking if it pays for women to be nice at work; and a new project investigating Darwin.
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Woman's Hour - 28/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Special programme on women who choose not to have children. Statistics show more women are choosing not to have children in western Europe.
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Woman's Hour - 28/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: Ladies of Letters Say No, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. The ladies end up facing one another in hospital (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 28/08/2008
With Jenni Murray. ncluding an interview with comedienne Joan Rivers who is celebrating her 75th birthday with a series of 75 performances in Britain.
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Woman's Hour - 28/09/2007
With Ritula Shah. Drama: A Short History of Longing. Shelagh Stephenson's comic study of loneliness through the authors of personal ads in newspapers and magazines (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 28/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including Control in the Classroom and the English Marriage. Plus the drama Craven.
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Woman's Hour - 28/09/2010
With Jane Garvey. Including John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury on their first collaborative book, Women of Zimbabwe Arise and whose room is it when children go to university?
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Woman's Hour - 28/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. What message does Disney's High School Musical series give to pre-teen girls? Sheila is joined by the film critic Lorien Haynes and comedian Mel Giedroyc.
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Woman's Hour - 28/10/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including Kirstie Allsopp on home crafts, a Hungarian midwife is in custody for performing home births - why? and is homework for children a good idea?
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Woman's Hour - 28/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (8/20).
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Woman's Hour - 28/11/2008
With Jenni Murray. Does having a mother who works make daughters keen to follow her influence by carving out a career for herself? Three female generations from the same family compare views.
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Woman's Hour - 28/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: MR James at Christmas. Derek Jacobi as the voice of MR James introduces classic ghost stories (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 28/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Men on Woman's Hour: Tony Parsons, Benjamin Zephaniah, and John O'Farrell join Jane to reflect on the masculine elements of the year's output.
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Woman's Hour - 28/12/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. A programme to celebrate age, wisdom and experience with inspiring interviews from Vanessa Regrave and other guests.
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Woman's Hour - 29/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Foreign Correspondent Christina Lamb on her latest book, child protection, and Russian pianist Nelly Akopian-Tamarina. Including drama: The Interpreter II (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 29/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Jazz pianist Judy Carmichael talks to Jenni about her musical style, her life and playing all over the world. She also plays live in the Woman's Hour studio.
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Woman's Hour - 29/02/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Black Narcissus. Rumer Godden's tale of a group of nuns who establish a remote mission in the Himalayas. 5/5: The Belfry.
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Woman's Hour - 29/03/2007
Presented by Jenni Murray and featuring the drama: Celluloid Extras.
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Woman's Hour - 29/03/2010
Jane Garvey examines the enduring appeal of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz; the life of author Pearl Buck; the art of gift giving; should the 'legal high' mephedrone be banned?
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Woman's Hour - 29/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring performance artist Laurie Anderson and novelist Julia Leigh. And are the under-5s being under-fed? Including drama: An Expert in Murder (7/10).
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Woman's Hour - 29/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Actor Harriet Walter on her latest role in Jacobean tragedy, and women who swear - is it more offensive to hear bad language from a woman than a man?
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Woman's Hour - 29/05/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Blood in the Bridal Shop. Comedy by Nancy Harris and Louise Ramsden, set before a wedding, with each episode from a different viewpoint. 2/5: Judy.
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Woman's Hour - 29/05/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships, set in 1950, about two women in pursuit of happiness.
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Woman's Hour - 29/06/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: Life Class. Pat Barker's poignant study of three young artists trying to find their way in a world ravaged by the Great War (10/10).
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Woman's Hour - 29/06/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. How important is sport at school? British nuns as potential saints; the squeeze on university places; would you have done your wedding differently?
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Woman's Hour - 29/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. China's biggest pop star Sa Dingding talks about the influences of early traditional music on her career.
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Woman's Hour - 29/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Discussing eyebrow trends, sexual assaults on holiday, hip dysplasia in babies and listeners' views on an item about sex in long-term relationships.
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Woman's Hour - 29/07/2010
Jenni Murray hosts a phone-in on women who choose not to have children. If this is you, was it a deliberate choice?
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Woman's Hour - 29/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: Ladies of Letters Say No, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Irene resorts to direct action (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 29/08/2008
With Jane Garvey. Psychologist Susan Quilliam and marital psychotherapist Brett Kahr discuss the challenges of updating The Joy of Sex.
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Woman's Hour - 29/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. What are the Conservatives doing to appeal to the women voters they need to win back at the next election?
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Woman's Hour - 29/09/2009
With Jane Garvey. How critical is the role of a political leader's spouse? Also, Jill Murphy on Dear Hound, her new book for children, and Olympics prostitution.
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Woman's Hour - 29/09/2010
With Jenni Murray. Could Dilma Rousseff be the new President of Brazil? Plus, reports on when a child can't settle at school, being pregnant and redundant, and Josceline Dimbleby.
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Woman's Hour - 29/10/2007
Including drama: Island Blue. Gerda Stevenson's tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 29/10/2008
With Clare Balding. Poet Caroline Bird talks about her writing and her work with the charity Second Sight.
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Woman's Hour - 29/10/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Portraits of the Queen, the appeal of 'real bread' and the immigrant children who are being forced to work in the UK.
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Woman's Hour - 29/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (9/20).
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Woman's Hour - 29/11/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Including why people are coming out gay at a younger age, rape as a weapon of war in the Congo, Mrs Gaskell and 'Wives and Daughters'.
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Woman's Hour - 29/12/2008
With Martha Kearney. Featuring the gardener Beth Chatto at her gardens in Elmstead Market, Essex. Including drama: Seventy Odd.
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Woman's Hour - 29/12/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including women addicted to gambling, Sarah Jessica Parker on her latest film, and sexy nightie or pyjamas - what's your preference?
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Woman's Hour - 29/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including discussion on the different kinds of meditation and attitudes to infertility in the Asian community, and Wendy Nieper performs live.
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Woman's Hour - 30/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Interpreter II. Anjum Malik's second series about a freelance translator. 3/5: Nina interprets for a couple whose child faces major surgery.
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Woman's Hour - 30/01/2009
With Jenni Murray. Author Jill Dawson discusses her new novel “The Great Loverâ€.
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Woman's Hour - 30/03/2007
Presented by Jenni Murray and featuring the drama: Celluloid Extras.
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Woman's Hour - 30/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. Where to find happiness in difficult times? Jane discusses this with James Runcie, Claire Fox, and Derek Draper.
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Woman's Hour - 30/03/2010
Jane Garvey visits an exhibition about the history of plants and flowers in the home. Also on the programme: how Lady Susana Walton kept her husband William's music alive.
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Woman's Hour - 30/04/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: An Expert in Murder. Murder mystery by Nicola Upson set in 1934, blending fact with fiction (8/10).
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Woman's Hour - 30/04/2009
With Jenni Murray. The life of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children; asking if 'fat pills' work; choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh; plus drama Lady Audley's Secret.
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Woman's Hour - 30/04/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Forces' Housing, buttermilk, the lost art of sophistication, and we put 'The Mirdle' (a girdle for men) to the test.
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Woman's Hour - 30/05/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Blood in the Bridal Shop. Comedy by Nancy Harris and Louise Ramsden, set before a wedding, with each episode from a different viewpoint. 3/5: Nicholas.
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Woman's Hour - 30/05/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships, set in 1950, about two women in pursuit of happiness (5/10).
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Woman's Hour - 30/06/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Way We Live Right Now. Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, greed and dishonesty, updated by Jonathan Myerson.
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Woman's Hour - 30/06/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including banning the Veil, Alzheimer's and friendship, and, ahead of a major new exhibiton, Sandi Toksvig on her gay icons. Plus drama: Sacred Hearts.
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Woman's Hour - 30/06/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. Lillian Hochhauser brings the Bolshoi Ballet back to the UK, how do we deal with a culture of gang violence against young women? Breaking up in 2010.
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Woman's Hour - 30/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including features on proposed changes to the law on murder, the midlife crisis and Oxfam's activities in Sudan.
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Woman's Hour - 30/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Amy Molloy discusses being widowed at 23. Plus, looking at Sylvia Plath's only play and considering the pleasures and pitfalls of holidaying with another family.
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Woman's Hour - 30/07/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The importance of good posture. Children in Belfast who take part in 'recreational rioting'. How to plan a family holiday with grown-up offspring.
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Woman's Hour - 30/08/2007
With Miriam O'Reilly. Drama: Ladies of Letters Say No, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. Vera discovers a dastardly plot (4/5).
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Woman's Hour - 30/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. A programme devoted to the history, politics and colour of hair. We explore how it has been used to indicate status, power and politics.
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Woman's Hour - 30/09/2008
With Jane Garvey. Nepalese MP Dr Arju Deuba on improving women's lives in Nepal.
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Woman's Hour - 30/09/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including Roy Hudd, regulations on caring for children, music on the hurdy-gurdy with Stevie Wishart, and does preventative mastectomy work? Plus drama: Craven.
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Woman's Hour - 30/09/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. What difference did the 1968 Dagenham women's strike make? Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero improvises live and Gauguin's relationship with women.
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Woman's Hour - 30/10/2007
Including drama: Island Blue. Gerda Stevenson's tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island (2/5).
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Woman's Hour - 30/10/2008
With Clare Balding. American singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco tells Clare how she views the current feminist movement in the US and performs live in the studio.
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Woman's Hour - 30/11/2007
Including drama: Dombey and Son. Mike Walker's adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of family relationships (10/20).
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Woman's Hour - 30/11/2009
With Jane Garvey. Including cabaret star Camille O'Sullivan on her new show, the joys and perils of Rollerderby, and living with a man who has depression.
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Woman's Hour - 30/11/2010
With Jane Garvey. Asking whether TV's Spooks is deterring women from joining MI5; should offices be more breastfeeding-friendly; and sex noises - a turn-on or a turn-off?
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Woman's Hour - 30/12/2008
With Jane Garvey. Including Lynda Bellingham and Deirdre Sanders on taking a sabatical from the family and the Irish singer Eleanor McEvoy.
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Woman's Hour - 30/12/2010
With Jenni Murray. Including the sailors Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella on the Barcelona World Race, work dress code, and 90 years of Royal Academy of Dance ballet teachers.
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Woman's Hour - 31/01/2008
With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Interpreter II. Anjum Malik's second series about a freelance translator. 4/5: Nina is asked to interpret for a suspected illegal immigrant.
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Woman's Hour - 31/03/2008
With Jane Garvey. Featuring Clare Allen on how her experience of mental health services inspired Poppy Shakespeare. Drama: What I Think of My Husband (1/5).
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Woman's Hour - 31/03/2009
With Jane Garvey. What impact has the government's new system had on childminding?
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Woman's Hour - 31/03/2010
Jenni Murray talks to Meera Syal about her new role in Shirley Valentine; crime writer Donna Leon, pension reform; two for the price of one? The changing role of the MP's spouse.
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Woman's Hour - 31/05/2007
With Jenni Murray. Drama: Blood in the Bridal Shop. Comedy by Nancy Harris and Louise Ramsden, set before a wedding, with each episode from a different viewpoint. 4/5: Lydia.
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Woman's Hour - 31/05/2010
With Sheila McClennon. A special edition on gardening with the creator of Alnwick, the Duchess of Northumberland, and Catherine Horwood, author of Gardening Women.
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Woman's Hour - 31/07/2007
With Jane Little. Including the drama Q and A, by Ayeesha Menon, from the novel by Vikas Swarup. 2/10. 10,000 Rupees. Part of India and Pakistan '07 season.
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Woman's Hour - 31/07/2008
With Jenni Murray. Featuring mental health, holidaying at home, regeneration in Castleford and female racing drivers.
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Woman's Hour - 31/07/2009
With Jenni Murray. Including a discussion on women's health in Hartlepool, living in families with a gender imbalance and how to create the shabby chic look on a budget.
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Woman's Hour - 31/08/2007
With Jane Little. Drama: Ladies of Letters Say No, by Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman. The ladies turn to the queen for help (5/5).
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Woman's Hour - 31/08/2009
With Jane Garvey. A special programme to mark 100 years of the Girl Guides. Including interviews with young recruits and BBC presenter and former Queen's Guide Kate Silverton.
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Woman's Hour - 31/08/2010
Presented by Jane Garvey. Choirmaster Gareth Malone on his 'Extraordinary School for Boys'; Klezmer music; Teen fiction; and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
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Woman's Hour - 31/10/2007
Including drama: Island Blue. Gerda Stevenson's tale of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island (3/5).
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Woman's Hour - 31/10/2008
With Sheila McClennon. Including a discussion on whether poor parenting is a class issue. What we actually mean by poor parenting, and what role the government is playing.
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Woman's Hour - 31/12/2007
With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Writing the Century. Vanessa Rosenthal explores the 20th century through real correspondence. 1/5: And Is There Honey Still for Tea?
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Woman's Hour - 31/12/2009
With Jenni Murray. A programme celebrating the year in poetry, from the landscape of Shetland with Jed Hadfield to the River Severn with Alice Oswald; plus Carol Ann Duffy.
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Woman's Hour - 31/12/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. High-heeled shoes for the party season - how high, and why? Poet Anneliese Emmans Dean performs a specially commissioned poem for Woman's Hour.
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Woman's Hour - Christmas Cracker
Presented by Jane Garvey. A celebration of the musical talent and live performances from the programme. With Macy Gray, Annie Lennox, Cyndi Lauper and many more.
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Woman's Hour - The Stepson
With Jenni Murray. Drama: No Nightingales No Snakes: Short stories by Maeve Binchy. 2/5: The Stepson.
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Woman's Hour - Trevor
With Jane Little. Drama: Blood in the Bridal Shop. Comedy by Nancy Harris and Louise Ramsden, set before a wedding, with each episode from a different viewpoint. 1/5: Trevor.
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Woman's Hour - Trevor
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Family Man, by Mike Bartlett. 2/5. When teenager Isobel stumbles across her MP father's secret, their world explodes.
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Woman's Hour - Trevor
With Jenni Murray. Including the drama The Family Man, by Mike Bartlett. 4/5. MP Graham Fletcher has to face the press.
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With Jane Little. Drama: The Family Man, by Mike Bartlett. 5/5: Disgraced MP Graham Fletcher goes missing.
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Woman's Hour - Weekend Woman's Hour
Highlights of the week's Woman's Hour programmes with Carolyn Quinn.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Martha Kearney.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including children and ballroom dancing, happiness, feminisation of history, and girls and autism.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Little. Including Carole King, Imogen Cooper, baldness in men, boat builder Gail McGarva and only children.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Little. Including pressures on social workers, India's general election, raising teenagers, and women and catty comments.
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With Jane Garvey. Coping with the death of a pet, Lydia Cacho - the Mexican journalist campaigning against the trafficking of women, and violinist Sarah Chang.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including fat pills, Jan Ravens, family courts, Carol Ann Duffy, Yvonne Howard and female Arsenal fans.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. With Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Women's Room, family inheritance, female judges and Kate Royal.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Ritula Shah.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey, including soprano Susan Bullock, why men and woman might talk differently and the risks of dying intestate.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including: life at 90 and beyond with Denis Healey and Diana Athill.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Marguerite Patten, Claire Tomalin and Little Boots.
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Highlights of the week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including an interview with the father of missing chef Claudia Lawrence and help for the honey bee.
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With Jane Garvey. Including Caroline Flint in her first radio interview since resigning from the government.
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With Jane Garvey. Including surrogacy and your legal rights; Jo Whiley on music and motherhood; and the power and influence of the fashion editor.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including an interview with Motown singer Martha Reeves, and the risks posed by legal so-called 'party drugs'.
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With Jane Garvey. Includes an interview with CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour, the gender politics behind tennis mixed doubles and the use of the hunger strike as protest.
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Including music from Florence and the Machine; performance poetry for the i-pod generation; the forgotten bravery of women on the First World War frontline. With Jane Garvey.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour, with Jane Garvey. Including the first female helicopter pilot to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross medal after her mission in Iraq.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including the problems caused in long term relationships by mismatched libidos and the nostalgic appeal of the beach-hut.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Sheila McClennon.
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With Sheila McClennon. Including Harriet Harman on her week in charge, Penelope Lively on her new novel, Debbie Purdy and Omar Puente on their relationship, and men who don't drive.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Sheila McClennon. Including a Bollywood extravaganza and being positive about pessimism.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
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With Jane Garvey. Including author Michelle Paver, whose children's books are worldwide bestsellers; the impact on a relationship of being deaf; parent-child trust.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Brooke Kinsella on the murder of her brother Ben, Bananarama, and should high heels be banned at work?
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Beth Ditto on music and fashion, and design guru Stephen Bayley on the inspiration of the female form.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including biographer William Shawcross on the life of the Queen Mother.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Shirley Williams on childhood influences, and an interview with Joseph Fritzl's forensic psychiatrist.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Roy Hudd on the women in his life, and Jeanette Winterson on the art of the female surrealists.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Actress Phyllida Law on living with her mother-in-law, and comedian Jo Brand relives her life as a teenager.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including singer Leona Lewis on her rise to fame and Sheryl Gascoigne on life before and after Gazza.
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With Jane Garvey. Including Mel C in Blood Brothers, Virginia Woolf's home in Sussex, and does the time children spend in front of screens do them harm or can it benefit them?
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With Sheila McClennon. Includes crime writer Patricia Cornwell, emotional attachment to clothes, hankies v tissues, the future of the law on provocation, mentoring for young people.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including tennis ace Serena Williams on success and sisterhood and Sophie Grigson on warming winter soups.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Caprice on canine chic, Chihuahuas and fashion.
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With Jane Garvey. Including the allure of the vampire, and the iconic style of Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe.
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With Jane Garvey. Including Zadie Smith on the pleasures of the essay, and a government minister defends its record in tackling domestic violence.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Delia Smith's top tips for a stress-free Christmas.
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With Jane Garvey. Including Tamzin Outhwaite on her stage and screen success, and the return of the tracksuit bottom as a fashion item.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Sigourney Weaver talks about Avatar and life beyond the screen.
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A celebration of music and performance presented by Jane Garvey. Artists include Florence and the Machine, Carole King and Beth Ditto.
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With Jane Garvey. Celebrating inspirational women from 2009, including Shirley Williams, Katie Piper, Marguerite Patten and sword swallower Miss Behave.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey, including the inspiring women achievers of 2009.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. War widow Christina Schmid talks about rebuilding her life.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Julie Walters on playing Mo Mowlam, and why black's never out of fashion.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Maternity matters: have promises made about choice in childbirth been met?
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Writer Margaret Forster on grandmothers and fashion icon Zandra Rhodes on how to stand out in a crowd.
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With Jane Garvey. Including Liberal Democrats' leader Nick Clegg, domestic drudgery in the 1930s, cooking with eggs, and the actor Kelly McGillis.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
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Weekend Woman's Hour presented by Jane Garvey. John Barrowman on his music, sexuality, and being Captain Jack.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including Pauline Prescott on life with John, and the son she gave up for adoption.
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With Jane Garvey. Including Helen Skelton on kayaking up the Amazon; Lynda Bellingham on being adopted; should the burka be banned?
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Presented by Jane Garvey and including an extended interview with Prime Minister Gordon Brown as part of our series Winning Women's Votes.
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Changes in laws affecting the sex trade, a look at the V&A's quilts exhibition, and an interview with artist Maggi Hambling. Presented by Jane Garvey.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Meera Syal on Shirley Valentine; the significance and role of politicians' wives today and a debate on Paul Newman versus Robert Redford.
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With Jenni Murray. Including interviews with departing MPs Ann Widdecombe and Clare Short, and what our love affair with mobile technology is doing to our relationships.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Interviews with Kim Cattrall, Fatima Bhutto and Anne Cryer. Why women should celebrate their erotic capital and how to spot and cook wild garlic.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Coronation Street actor Beverley Callard talks candidly about suffering a breakdown and being treated for clinical depression.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Actor Harriet Walter on her latest theatrical role, and childcare guru Penelope Leach on the arguments against letting young babies cry.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including newly elected MPs their discussing hopes and ambitions for political careers at Westminster.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey. Including a visit to the newly reopened Florence Nightingale Museum to cast new light on the lady with the lamp.
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Jane Garvey talks to Miranda Raison about life after Spooks; the first UK TV advert for pregnancy advice; women who leave their children; and can adults look good with plaits?
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Diane Abbott MP talks about why she's running for the Labour Party leadership.
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With Sheila McClennon. The Duchess Northumberland talks about her project to transform a derelict corner of Alnwick Castle into one of Britain's most popular gardens.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Vanessa Redgrave, Gail Porter, Harriet Harman debate the possible changes in rape law which would extend anonymity to defendants; and women in bands.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. With poet Jackie Kay, women on the political map, deaf author Louise Stern and singer Judith Owen. Also, why women are in the UK are converting to Islam.
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With Jane Garvey. Saving the fruits of summer in a jar of jam. Looking for love? How to write the perfect personal ad. Sonja Sohn from TV's The Wire on its remarkable success.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. What might you change about your big day, and a performance from US singer-songwriter Judy Collins.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Why not enough women are serious about exercise.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Dame Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons, on stepping down after nine years, mum bloggers, and Radio 5 live's 'Men's Hour' - a good idea?
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Singer Macy Gray, trafficking and the Olympic Games, the history of the department store, music from The Unthanks, gay dads Gary and Barrie Drewitt Barlow.
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Presented by Bidisha. Victoria Wood on her new TV show about Morecambe and Wise, Women who don't want to be mothers, Deportment, Stoning, author Barbara Kingsolver.
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Presented by Bidisha. The art of taxidermy, can calling a woman a dyke ever be anything but abusive, and what will happen to the rights of women in Afghanistan when troops leave?
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Presented by Bidisha. Features 7/7 bombings survivor Davinia Douglass, Emma Donogue on her new novel Room, Vanessa Feltz on her gastric band operation, and women ale drinkers.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Film director Gurinder Chadha talks about the influence Ealing comedies had on her most recent film.
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The rise of raunch culture: is there too much sex in pop music, and the deal-breakers that spell doom in a relationship. Presented by Jane Garvey.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Dame Ellen MacArthur on sustainability, Gareth Malone on teaching boys, whether the HFEA should be scrapped and the politics of black hair.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes, including Tamsin Greig and her movie role in Tamara Drewe. Presented by Jane Garvey.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Natascha Kampusch on her imprisonment in an Austrian basement and her escape eight years later.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Elizabeth Gilbert on the true story behind Eat Pray Love, and music from supermodel turned songstress Karen Elson.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. The women whose struggle for equal pay is told in the film Made in Dagenham, and Josceline Dimbleby on spicing up cooking in the seventies.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. David Tennant; Arlene Phillips; Ingrid Betancourt; your views on child benefit; and music from Marina and the Diamonds.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Actress June Spencer on sixty years as the indomitable Peggy in The Archers, and shadow minister Yvette Cooper on Ed, equality and elections.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes, with Jane Garvey.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Kirsty Allsopp talks about her new series, children and diets, female troubadours, Gee Walker and forgiveness five years after her son's murder.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Maureen Lipman on the art of delivering a monologue, and Lesley Manville who's tipped for an Oscar for her performance in Mike Leigh's latest film.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Pamela Stephenson discusses psychology and Strictly, and Margaret Atwood on today's relevance of The Handmaid's Tale, 25 years after publication.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Music icon Annie Lennox reflects on her early career with The Tourists and the Eurythmics, and Sheila Kitzinger discusses the euphoria of childbirth.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Paternity leave: was Simon Hoggart right to call Ed Miliband a 'wuss' for taking time off?
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Why the sherry tipple is making a comeback - and we're not talking about pouring it into the trifle.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes, with Jane Garvey.
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Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes, with Jane Garvey.
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Jane Garvey celebrates inspirational women who have appeared on the programme in 2010, with the journalist Joan Smith and two young knife crime campaigners from North London.
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Jane Garvey presents: Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest.
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including the implications of the Miriam O'Reilly case; the enduring appeal of Carmen and how often should you wash your sheets?
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Presented by Jane Garvey. Including the tyranny of clothes sizes - why they vary so much, and Mikhail Gorbachev's grand-daughter discusses his political legacy as he nears 80.
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