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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Cerys Matthews on Carole King

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Is Carole King the greatest ever female singer songwriter? Cerys Matthews tells us her favourites.
Is it racist to express a racial preference when dating? Bim Adewunmi and Charly Lester discuss. Living with chronic pain - are women more likely to suffer?
Joanna Jepson on her memoir, A Lot Like Eve, being bullied as a child, and challenging the late abortion of a foetus with cleft palate in 2003. The poet and novelist Elaine Feinstein discusses her favourite female poets and writing about writers in her latest collection, Portraits.
Claira Hermet on why she chose to have a double mastectomy at 27 years old. And Jenny Eclair and Lucy Cavendish discuss not liking your child's friends? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Bim Adewunmi
Interviewed Guest:
Charly Lester
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Bourke
Interviewed Guest:
Liam O'Toole
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Mansfield
Interviewed Guest:
Cerys Matthews
Interviewed Guest:
Joanna Jepson
Interviewed Guest:
Elaine Feinstein
Interviewed Guest:
Claira Hermet
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny Eclair
Interviewed Guest:
Lucy Cavendish

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