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Woman's Hour - Weekend Woman's Hour

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With Jane Garvey. Including an interview with CNN's leading international correspondent Christiane Amanpour; the gender politics behind mixed doubles in tennis; writers Zoe Heller and Esther Freud on creating unlikeable characters in fiction; the origins of the hunger strike, its suffrage history and use today; women and the burkha; the motivation behind the desire to change sex; and novelist Sarah Dunant on convent life in Renaissance Italy.