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Woman's Hour

Monica Grady on Space Exploration; Cerys Matthews; Inequality in the Workplace

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Space exploration with Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences. Songwriter and singer Cerys Matthews on her new song book, Hook Line and Singer. We look at the case of a pregnant woman in Ireland who is clinically brain-dead but being kept on a life support machine to keep her baby alive. Dr Jude Browne from the University of Cambridge looks at quotas for women, why they are an effective but blunt tool and explores other ways to address inequality in the workplace. And archive material of Jane Bown, the Observer photographer who died at the weekend.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Cerys Matthews
Interviewed Guest:
Monica Grady
Interviewed Guest:
Jude Browne

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