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Woman's Hour

Dame Shirley Bassey; Violinist Kyung Wha Chung; Business woman Karen Blackett OBE

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Dame Shirley Bassey, one of the most iconic voices in British music, joins Jane to discuss over sixty years in the music industry and her new album, Hello Like Before.

Karen Blackett of Mediacom has been named Britain's most influential black person - we hear how she became the first business woman to get the title.

A look at how we experience old age, our attitudes, our fears, our hopes.

We talk to Masha Alyokina and Nadya Tolokonnikova from Russian, feminist group Pussy Riot who spent 21 months in jail for their anti-Putin protest;

Plus an exhibition in Liverpool of Child Migrants sent to Canada, Australia and NZ . The CEO of Refuge Sandra Horley and legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Shirley Bassey
Interviewed Guest:
Karen Blackett
Interviewed Guest:
Sandra Horley
Interviewed Guest:
Kyung Wha Chung
Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Bullivant
Interviewed Guest:
Masha Alyokina
Interviewed Guest:
Nadya Tolokonnikova
Interviewed Guest:
Tony Chambers
Interviewed Guest:
Ellie Moffat
Interviewed Guest:
Julia Neuberger

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