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- Topical subjects in the news affecting women around the world from BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey present news, views, interviews and discussions from a female perspective. Woman's Hour brings you the big celebrity names and leading women in the news and subjects range widely from politics to health, law, education, arts, parenting, relationships, work, fiction, food and fashion.
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With Jenni Murray. Including the Sally Bercow effect: politics and truth?
WHNews: Dec 8th 2009
Tue, Dec 8
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Tamzin Outhwaite talks about her new leading role in the musical Sweet Charity. Jane talks to Health Minister Ann Keen MP and Professor Karol Sikora, honorary consultant oncologist at Hammersmith Hospital, about the recently announced figures that show women in the UK are more likely to die from cancer than many of their continental neighbours. We look at how children's outdoor play has changed over the generations. Jane is joined by Steve Humphries, producer/director of a two part BBC4...
WHNews: Dec 8th 2009
Tue, Dec 8
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Tamzin Outhwaite talks about her new leading role in the musical Sweet Charity. Jane talks to Health Minister Ann Keen MP and Professor Karol Sikora, honorary consultant oncologist at Hammersmith Hospital, about the recently announced figures that show women in the UK are more likely to die from cancer than many of their continental neighbours. We look at how children's outdoor play has changed over the generations. Jane is joined by Steve Humphries, producer/director of a two part BBC4...
Tue, Dec 8
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With Jane Garvey. Including Tamzin Outhwaite on Sweet Charity, and children's outdoor play
WHNews:Woman'sHourDecember7th2009
Mon, Dec 7
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ALESHA DIXON, the pop star talks about Strictly and her new documentary. STILLBIRTH:What's the best way to help parents whose babies are stillborn or die soon after birth? TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS: they've been given a radical makeover and are tipped to be the hot fashion item for next year. Top tips for wearing your tracksuit bottoms. LABIAPLASTY: why some doctors are concerned by the rise in demand for this surgery.
Mon, Dec 7
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With Jane Garvey. Including Alesha Dixon, stillbirth guidelines, and tracksuit bottoms.
Weekend Woman's Hour
Sat, Dec 5
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With Jane Garvey. Including Delia Smith's top tips for a stress-free Christmas.
WHNews: 4 Dec 09
Fri, Dec 4
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With Jenni Murray: Learning disabilities and parenthood: Is having children a universal human right or should some people be denied it? Evie Wyld - the 29 year old bookseller from Peckham who's just won the John Llewellyn Rhys Literary Prize with her first novel "After the Fire, A Still Small Voice"; Running a B&B: What's it like opening your home to strangers? Women in Switzerland - Why have Swiss women come out in support of the referendum to ban the construction of minarets in their...
Fri, Dec 4
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With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend.
Woman's Hour 03 12 09 Christmas with Delia
Thu, Dec 3
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Delia Smith joins Jenni to guide us through all aspects of cooking for Christmas, including all the traditional favourites, new, updated and alternative festive goodies; as well as advice for planning ahead and cooking for the freezer, short cuts to take the strain out of entertaining.
Thu, Dec 3
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With Jenni Murray. Delia Smith answers listeners' questions about Christmas catering.
WHNews: Woman's Hour 01 Dec 09 Annie Lennox on Aids in South Africa; Organi
Tue, Dec 1
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Combating HIV and Aids in South Africa - Marking World Aids Day with Annie Lennox; How to Attract Women to Parliament; Organic Wool - The environmental impact of cheap knit-wear; Departures - The rituals of death in the East and the West.
Woman's Hour: 30 November 09
Mon, Nov 30
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Men and Depression; Singer Camille O'Sullivan; Nazeen Ansari talks about Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi; Rollerderby, a women-only contat sport
WHNews: 27th Nov 09
Fri, Nov 27
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A new report into problems faced by the children of service personnel. We also speak to Debbie Allen - best known for her part in 'Fame' - who is now directing 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'. Felicity Lusk on becoming the first female head teacher at a boys' boarding school and Lisa Hannigan on being nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.
Woman's Hour: 26 Nov 09 Kate Humble and The Queen
Thu, Nov 26
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Wildlife presenter Kate Humble on her new role as President of the RSPB; Babywalkers in Prisons; A debate about the increase of women inmates in Prison and we look at significant events in the life of The Queen so far.
WHNews: Woman's Hour 25 Nov 09
Wed, Nov 25
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In Woman's Hour today: the government's new strategy on domestic violence; author Zadie Smith on her new book of essays, 'Changing my Mind'; listener responses to the discussion on whether the washing line or tumble dryer is best; and fathers attending childbirth - are they a help or a hindrance? Jenni Murray presents.
WHNews: 24 November 2009 with Jane Garvey
Tue, Nov 24
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Why don't children do chores today? Jane talks to Annette Mountford from Family Links and writer and mother of four Lucy Cavendish. A discussion about the national Chlamydia screeing programme and whether it has been set up properly. An interview with biographer Diana Souhami about Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, the eccentric and indomitable couple who lived in France during two world wars. Has the dinner party died or just transformed? Jane talks to chef Angela Hartnett and columnist...
WHNews:23rdNovember2009
Mon, Nov 23
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The Iraq War Inquiry begins on Tuesday 24th November. Rose Gentle speaks about her son Gordon, a Royal Highland Fusilier who was killed in Iraq aged 19 and about her campaign for the inquiry; Dame Margot Fonteyn: Jane is joined by Anne-Marie Duff, the BAFTA nominated Shameless actor who is playing the title role in a forthcoming BBC Four film about the dancer, and Meredith Daneman, a former student at the Royal Ballet School and Margot Fonteyn’s biographer; Bras - why are 80% of us wearing...
WHNews: Woman's Hour 20 Nov 09
Fri, Nov 20
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with Jenni Murray: Rights for cohabiting couples - would a cohabitation law 'retard the emancipation of women' as Baroness Deech said in a lecture this week, or protect women in such relationships? Inspirational women: the artist Charlotte Newson appeals for your photos to use in a tribute to the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Rachel Crolla, a teacher from Bradford, has just become the first woman to climb to the highest point of every country in Europe. Caz Graham joins her on Scafell...
WHNews: Woman's Hour 19 Nov 2009
Thu, Nov 19
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The Mums' Vote - Why are politicians targeting mothers? Do mothers have a collective political identity? Vaira Vike-Freiberga - Former Latvian leader's bid to become EU's first president. The Washing Line - Is it time to ditch the dryer? Lizzie Mickery - On her new TV drama series, Paradox.
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Wed, Nov 18
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In today's programme - Jenni Murray discusses whether it is selfish not to have children; the enduring appeal of the vampire; there's a visit to the Mother and Baby Unit at Holloway Prison and we hear from a woman who catches deadly black mamba snakes.
WHNews: Tues 17 November 2009
Tue, Nov 17
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In response to an anonymous letter written to the programme by an MP, Jane is joined by Sue Cameron from the FT and Julia Hartley-Brewer of the Sunday Express to discuss whether the Kelly Review impacts disproportionately on women MP's. We hear about a project in Hull which has provided doulas to women from disadvantaged backgrounds and ask whether doulas are a solution to plugging the gaps in a cash-strapped NHS.
Woman's Hour 16 Nov 09
Mon, Nov 16
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Disabled young people: what happens when they move from child to adult services?; the glamorous, enduring appeal of Amelia Earhart; with the national debt can we afford benefits for all?; and the history of the Christmas pudding and a modern recipe with an interesting twist.
WHNews: Thurs 12th Nov 09
Thu, Nov 12
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Today we hear from Romola Garai about her acting career, most recently as Emma in the BBC production and her role in the new film, 'Glorious 39'. Jenni speaks to Pauline Hardinges about her decision to break a secrecy agreement regarding the 30,000 refund she received for some of the care of her mother who has Alzheimer's disease. Phil Spiers chief executive of First Stop and Sarah Pickup, honorary secretary of ADASS, explain what a family's financial entitlements are when it comes to the...
WHNews: Woman's Hour 11 Nov 09
Wed, Nov 11
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With Jenni Murray. Today: Sexism in the Church of England?; Andrea Marshall, discoverer of the manta ray; Darina Allen cooks apple fritters; and the wisdom of proverbs.
WHNews: 10 November 2009 with Jane Garvey
Tue, Nov 10
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There are only three women in charge of a FTSE 100 company and they are all American. And there are another thirty per cent of female company directors in the UK also American. Jane asks why US women are doing so well over here. Leslie Scott tells Jane the story of how she invented Jenga. The difficult decision about whether to continue with anti-depressants during pregnancy. And Odette Kayirere, founder of an organisation that supports widows and orphans in Rwanda who has recently been...
WHNews:9thNovember2009
Mon, Nov 9
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What is the best approach for parents? A new report shows that parents who use a "tough love" approach are more likely to give children the skills they need for success and well being in later life; Premature Babies: 50,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the UK. This is one of the highest rates in Europe, and the figure is still rising. So what causes premature births?;Can you beat the recession by entering competitions? Probably not, but some people, known as 'compers', give it a...
Woman's Hour 06 Nov 09
Fri, Nov 6
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With Jenni Murray: On today's programme: Men & Infertility: On the day when the UK's first Fertility Show opens at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre, we ask why men find it harder than women to talk about their infertility; UCAS Forms are being filled out all over the country - should parents be involved or should young people be left to stand on their own two feet? Lycees - known as a tinned, syrupy dessert in the UK, but we discover their nobler cultural history in China; The Polygamy...
WHNews: 05 Nov 09
Thu, Nov 5
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Jenni debates whose responsibility it is to keep children safe online; author Sue Townsend talks about the return of the much-loved Adrian Mole, now 39 and a quarter and still not very grown-up; the latest revival of the play "Mrs Klein" prompts a discussion about the legacy of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein; and Sophie Grigson cooks up some soup live in the studio.
WHNews: Woman's Hour 04 11 09
Thu, Nov 5
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Tennis legend Serena Williams talks about her extraordinary career and writing her autobiography, we hear about a new radio soap set in Kabul, couples who work together discuss the pleasures and pitfalls ( in the light of the new recommendations that MPs should not be able to employ their own relatives ) and finally, what's on your dressing table? We scratch the glass surface of this altar to womanly wiles.
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