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Woman's Hour: Shirin Ebadi; selection and Free Schools; Sudan

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Shirin Ebadi; selection and Free Schools; Sudan

07/07/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Shirin Ebadi; selection and Free Schools; Sudan

With Jenni Murray. Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi; how will Free schools select pupils?

Presented by Jenni Murray. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi; Free schools and selection; and lost in obscurity, Jane Austen's greatest rival - author Maria Edgeworth.

Free schools: will they be accessible to a wide social mix? Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi on her new book and why she had to leave Iran. What will independence mean for the women of Sudan, both in the north and the south. Jane Austen's greatest rival, the author Maria Edgeworth: why have so few of us heard of her? Presented by Jenni Murray.

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