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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour

24/04/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour

Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.

Presented by Jane Garvey. Coronation Street actor Beverley Callard talks candidly about suffering a breakdown and being treated for clinical depression.

Presented by Jane Garvey.
Once the staple of hairdressing salons, the 'shampoo and set' was the popular style for the well groomed woman. Queen of the Retro-Bouff, Nina Butkovich-Budden and top hairdresser Nicky Clarke discuss the revival of interest in vintage hairstyles and remember the setting lotion of choice.

The actor Beverley Callard is one of Coronation Street's best loved characters: landlady of The Rovers Return, Liz MacDonald. Behind the scenes, her life has been just as dramatic. She talks candidly about suffering a breakdown and being treated for clinical depression. 

When Britain's naval task force headed for the Falklands to retake the Islands from Argentine forces, the only female military personnel destined for the combat zone were nurses. We hear from women who served on the Hospital Ship Uganda. 

The family of a woman who took her own life in prison talked about why they think she was failed by the system. Doctor Seena Fazel, a clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at Oxford University, and Frances Crook, from the Howard League for Penal Reform discuss what support is available, and why women in prison are at greater risk of suicide and self harm. 

Clara Rodriguez is a Venezuelan-born pianist, who came to the UK at the age of 17 when she won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. She teaches there now, gives solo recitals around the world, and performs in Woman's Hour's studio.

Once considered the preserve of northern men, ferrets have become a favourite with women with most now owned by women in the south. Bennie Lye, from the National Ferret Welfare Society and Jude Shaw, who runs Dookies ferret rescue centre, discuss why in the presence of Tony Hancock - a twenty inch long ferret.

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