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Woman's Hour - 25/07/2008

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With Jane Garvey. Including: Delia Derbyshire was an eccentric, charismatic and talented composer who is now enjoying cult status. Jane talks to sound engineer Dick Mills and composer Elizabeth Parker about her work. Neil Solo from the Babyfather Initiative, Conservative parliamentary candidate Shaun Bailey and Duncan Fisher from The Fatherhood Institute discuss David Cameron's call for absentee fathers in the black community to take more responsibility. Emma Biermann talks about her recent a trip to the Arctic with the WWF to highlight climate change. She is currently in the process of setting-up a Youth Climate Coalition for the UK. Friday Panel: Jane is joined by journalist and broadcaster Rosie Millard, environmental activist Emma Biermann and Duncan Fisher of the Fatherhood Institute. Among the topics under consideration is the Green Party's insistence on gender balance for their leadership. As John and Anne Darwin begin their prison sentences for fraud and deception, should children ever be told lies? And why has Mamma Mia been such a huge box office hit despite being savaged by critics? Including drama: Mr Maugham's Journey Home (5/5)