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Woman's Hour

Women in the French Resistance; relatives with Alzheimer's; confessional journalism.

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Women in the French Resistance. We discuss the vital role women played during the second World War and 94-year-old Cecile Rol-Tanguy talks about her work as an undercover activist.

When a partner or parent is in the advanced stages of dementia, is visiting them helpful or distressing? Ian Botham didn't visit his father for the last six months of his life as he found the experience too painful. He didn't want his dad's memory to be 'distorted by the illness that robbed him of himself'. But how important are visits - even when your loved one doesn't know you anymore?

Bryony Gordon, author of The Wrong Knickers, gives her take on the reality of being a single girl in your twenties. But does this type of self deprecating, confessional journalism really help? And what should be a young woman's priorities for the first 15 years of her adult life - work, finding a partner or having babies? We discuss the options.

All year round swimmer Catherine Jones remembers the two young women who were the first people to swim the Bristol Channel from Wales to England. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Producer:
Karen Dalziel
Interviewed Guest:
Maggie La Tourelle
Interviewed Guest:
Rosemary Westwell
Interviewed Guest:
Bryony Gordon
Interviewed Guest:
Yvonne Roberts
Interviewed Guest:
Sean Smithson
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Hanna Diamond

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