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Woman's Hour

Listener Week, Positive menopause experiences, Down's Syndrome

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

In the second of our Listener Week programmes, we talk to two women who were fortunate to have a very positive menopause - Jennifer Ballamy and Judith Wardel share their experiences.

Plus listener Sara Porter tells us how hearing a Woman's Hour discussion three years ago helped her decide to have a daughter she knew would be born with Down's Syndrome.

In the next in our series talking to artists who listen to the programme in their studio, reporter Felicity Finch visits sculptor Amelia Rowcroft at work in Sussex.

Listener Anna tells us about her fear of missing out on career opportunities after becoming pregnant just after starting her 'dream job'.

And DIY funerals: we speak to listener Virginia Prifti about her decision to manage her son's funeral and keep his body at home, and to Charles Cowling, the founder of the Good Funeral Guide - a website which helps people arrange the funeral they want.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Emma Wallace. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Producer:
Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:
Sara Porter
Interviewed Guest:
Jennifer Ballamy
Interviewed Guest:
Judith Wardel
Interviewed Guest:
Amelia Rowcroft
Interviewed Guest:
Virginia Prifti
Interviewed Guest:
Charles Cowling
Interviewer:
Felicity Finch

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