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Woman's Hour - 22/04/2008

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With Jenni Murray. Including: Chilean author Isabel Allende talks about her latest autobiographical work The Sum of our Days, where she takes up her family's story since the death of her daughter in 1992. Saudi Arabia's policies of sex segregation stop women from enjoying their basic rights, according to a report from Human Rights Watch. Jenni talks to the report's author Farida Deiff and Madawi Al Rashid, Saudi commentator and Professor of Social Anthropology at Kings College, London. As a new musical stage production of Gone with the Wind premieres in London, Jenni is joined by the show's writer Margaret Martin and film producer Tanya Seghatchian to discuss the enduring iconic status of Scarlett O'Hara. Is contraception best left to women or men to sort out? Claudia Hammond talks to medical historian Ornella Moscucci and Dr Lesley Hall, archivist at the Wellcome Library in London. Including Drama: An Expert in Murder (2/10).