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Woman's Hour: 27/04/2010

27/04/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 27/04/2010

To what extent is the way you vote determined by your parents' politics?

Presented by Jane Garvey. To what extent is the way you vote determined by your parents' politics? And author Helen Dunmore on her novel 'The Betrayal' set in Leningrad in 1952.

Presented by Jane Garvey. Is voting behaviour hereditary? Do you follow your parents or rebel against them? Have they ever told you who to vote for? Jane is joined by Kevin Maguire, Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror, Rachel Johnson, Editor of The Lady and former LibDem Director of Communications, Olly Grender. 

Writer Helen Dunmore joins Jane to discuss her latest novel, The Betrayal, which is set in Leningrad in the last years of Stalin's regime. 

A new report backed by leading mathematicians says that despite the National Numeracy Strategy maths teaching in schools still needs improvement. We hear from one Norfolk school where the teachers have been trained by the charity Catch Up Numeracy. Jane discusses what needs to be done with the report author Belinda Vernon and Professor Celia Hoyles. 

Sprucing up for Spring - How to give your home a sunshine make-over. Design gurus Justin and Colin on hand with tips on how to make your house look great this spring - the latest fabrics, colours and designs, and how to bring the outside in.

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