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Woman's Hour

Listener week: The mystery of the lost diary, Lyme disease, Child of a Catholic priest

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for over a year

It's been a turbulent few weeks in politics, not least for the women involved in leadership struggles - Theresa May, Andrea Leadsom and Angela Eagle. Two listeners share their thoughts.

In the late 1990s Claudia Rizzo's father found the 1929 diary of May Stewart, a teenage girl from Letchworth, at a small railway station in southern Italy. Claudia wants to trace May's family.

We continue our Listener Week chain of interviews. Knitwear designer and blogger Kate Davies recommends sonic artist and knitter, Felicity Ford.

Summer is a good time to be tick-aware as families spend more time in environments where Lyme-disease carrying ticks live. If detected early, Lyme disease can often be treated effectively with antibiotics. But if it's not treated or left too late there is a risk that you could develop severe and long-lasting symptoms. We speak to a listener , whose daughter was diagnosed with Lyme in January this year, and Dr Sandra Pearson, medical director of Lyme Disease Action.

We hear from Hannah Robinson, a listener who discovered her absent father was a Catholic priest.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Karen Pickavance
Interviewed Guest:
Heather Fallows
Interviewed Guest:
Claudia Rizzo
Interviewed Guest:
Felicity Ford
Interviewed Guest:
Melanie Morrison
Interviewed Guest:
Sandra Pearson
Interviewed Guest:
Hannah Robinson

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