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Woman's Hour

Sophia Loren on her fairy tale life

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning film star and Italy's most renowned and honoured
actress. She joins Jenni to recount stories from her colourful career, her 56 year marriage to producer Carlo Ponti and her brief incarceration in an Italian prison.

Why the maternal mortality rate across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has the potential to rocket by more than 20 times to one in seven women because of Ebola.

The creators of the BAFTA and RTS award-winning 'Getting On', Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine discuss their new series 'Puppy Love'.

How the Woman's Hour cooker - used by and complained about by some of the biggest names in world cuisine: Delia, Nigella, Jack Monroe, Jamie, Heston to name a few - could be yours if you make the winning bid in this year's Children In Need Auction.

Plus Erin Pizzey and Jenni Smith recall the very first Refuge set up for the victims of domestic violence. Why was it needed then, what has changed now.

Presenter Jenni Murray.
Producer Beverley Purcell. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Sophia Loren
Interviewed Guest:
Erin Pizzey
Interviewed Guest:
Jenni Smith
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Scanlan
Interviewed Guest:
Vicki Pepperdine

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