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Woman's Hour: Andrea Riseborough, Women bishops, Silence in the classroom

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Andrea Riseborough, Women bishops, Silence in the classroom

21/11/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Andrea Riseborough, Women bishops, Silence in the classroom

Andrea Riseborough, silence in the classroom, women bishops. Presented by Jane Garvey.

Andrea Riseborough on working with Madonna, using 'positive silence' in the classroom, and after support for C of E women bishops, what obstacles remain? Presented by Jane Garvey.

Andrea Riseborough on going from playing a young Margaret Thatcher, to her latest role in the film Resistance, and what it was like to work with Madonna on her forthcoming movie W.E. After overwhelming diocesan support in the Church of England to allow women to become bishops, we discuss what stages remain before the first consecration. Silence might not be what you associate with schools, but today we hear from an academic who believes that encouraging quiet in the classroom benefits pupils and from the headteacher who thinks silence is a skill that can be learnt. Suffragettes didn't only break windows in their campaign for the vote: they also planted trees. We visit a village near Bristol which was home to the 'suffragette field' and find out what remains of the arboretum. Presented by Jane Garvey.

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