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Shelagh Fogarty: 28/10/2011

28/10/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Shelagh Fogarty, 28/10/2011

Can we officially celebrate the end of discrimination against women?

Can we officially celebrate the end of discrimination against women? Plus, is the gap between the rich and the poor in Britain geting wider and wider?

After today's changes to the succession laws - meaning the sons and daughters of any future monarch will now have equal rights to the throne - can we officially declare the end of discrimination? Or are there battles still to be fought?

A look at the apparent growing gap between the rich and the poor after research finds that the pay for directors of the UK's 100 biggest company has risen by nearly 50%

Plus, the doors to St. Paul's Cathedral are reopened to the public for the first time after they were closed because of the anti-capitalist demonstrators camped outside.

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