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Woman's Hour

Friendship

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Baroness Shirley Williams and Helge Rubinstein talk about their friendship that's spanned over 60 years.

How does society value female friendship? When Baroness Williams's mother Vera Brittain wrote Testament of Friendship about her close relationship with the author Winifred Holtby, she felt that female friendship had been "mocked, belittled and falsely interpreted." Dawn O'Porter and Baroness Williams discuss whether that's still the case today.

Losing a friend. Jane Plume on her best friend Gina and what it's been like since her death.

Presented by Jenni Murray
Produced by Laura Northedge. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Helge Rubinstein
Interviewed Guest:
Dawn O'Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Plume
Interviewed Guest:
Deidre Sanders
Interviewed Guest:
Jo Carnegie
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Plume

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