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Woman's Hour: 06/04/2011

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06/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 06/04/2011

Presented by Jane Garvey. Featuring singer Mary Byrne from The X-Factor.

Presented by Jane Garvey. Featuring singer Mary Byrne from The X-Factor; have women progressed at the expense of men? sex education; and travel writer Sara Wheeler.

Jane Garvey presents. She might not have won X-Factor but former supermarket cashier Mary Byrne has beaten Britney Spears and Radiohead with her album "Mine and Yours" to be the highest new entry in this week's chart with her very first album release. Comments by David Willetts, Universities Minister, in connection with the launch of the government's social mobility strategy, that feminism was the single biggest factor that has caused a lack of social mobility in the last four decades. Why do we still struggle to teach our children the facts of life? 
And travel writer Sara Wheeler.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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