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Woman's Hour: A Dad is Born

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A Dad is Born

15/02/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, A Dad is Born

The life-changing arrival of a baby from dad's point of view. Plus novelist Harriet Lane.

How David Cameron is targeting women voters. Two new dads on how having a baby changed their lives. And who are the new Elizabethan woman, and how will history remember them?

We join the Radio 4 campaign to seek out the New Elizabethans - the sixty public figures who have made the greatest impact during Elizabeth II's reign. So who are the new Elizabethan woman and how will history remember them if at all? 

Our TVs are full of programmes about becoming a parent but most focus on the mother. Now two programmes which focus on dads come to the small screen. A Dad Is Born, follows three men in the weeks before and after the birth as they experience the steep learning curve of becoming father and find their place in the new pecking order. While Daddy Day Care asks three men to work in a nursery run by single mums to experience first hand what it's really like to look after kids all day. 

And Harriet Lane tells us what influenced her new novel Alys, Always - a story about the reverberations of a family tragedy, and the personal and professional effects on a woman who crossed the family's path. 

Producer Vibeke Venema.
Presenter Jenni Murray.

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