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Woman's Hour

Listener Week, Knitted art, Being vegan, Santiago at 70, Selling the family home

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

In the fourth of our Listener Week programmes we talk to listeners Hannah Phoebe Bowen and Lunda Kinnard about what attracts them to their vegan lifestyles.

70-year old Woman's Hour listener Maggie de Vos recalls how she walked 500 miles across Spain on a pilgrimage from Pamplona to Santiago. She self-published her diary 'Santiago at Seventy', and tells Jenni what motivated her to set out alone.

As part of our series Women in One, reporter Abigail Hollick asks a woman and her husband sitting on a bench by Albert Dock in Liverpool about bringing up their children.

Listeners feedback about the Woman's Hour item 'Getting Your Dream Job'.

22-year old textile design graduate and Woman's Hour regular listener Alice Blackstock from Bangor in Northern Ireland describes how she creates art on her 1950s knitting machine.

Listeners Sophie Jonas-Hill and Joan Willows discuss the emotional impact of selling the house they grew up in.

Presenter: Jenni Murray. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah Phoebe Bowen
Interviewed Guest:
Lynda Kinnard
Interviewed Guest:
Meurig Raymond
Interviewed Guest:
Maggie de Vos
Interviewed Guest:
Abigail Hollick
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Blackstock
Interviewed Guest:
Sophie Jonas-Hill
Interviewed Guest:
Joan Willows

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