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Woman's Hour: 24/01/2011

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24/01/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 24/01/2011

With Jane Garvey. Bedbugs - are they on the rise in the UK?

With Jane Garvey. Bedbugs - are they on the rise in the UK? Film-maker Beeban Kidron talks about the Indian Devadasi. How do twins and multiple births affect their elder siblings?

Jane Garvey presents. Bedbugs in the UK? How to spot them and what to do. Film-maker Beeban Kidron on her latest production about the Devadasi women of India. We hear the Government's latest plans for pensions and how it'll affect women. And what effect do twins and multiple births have on existing children ? Araminta Hall, author of Everything and Nothing, and the eldest in a family with quads; the comedian Jackie Clunes, who is mother of triplets and author of Extreme Motherhood, The Triplet Diaries; and the family therapist, Audrey Sandbank, who is mother of twins and author of Twins and the Family all discuss the issue.

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