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19/04/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Darina Allen

Irish cookery writer Darina Allen, and war widow Christina Schmid on finding love again.

Cook the Perfect... featuring Irish cookery writer Darina Allen; British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman on her new novel; and war widow Christina Schmid on finding love again.

Darina Allen will be Cooking the Perfect potato and caraway seed cakes from her recipe in her new Irish Traditional Cookery book. War widow Christina Schmid on finding love again nearly three years after her husband died defusing a Taliban bomb. Linda Kirkwood - the woman behind a women's drop in centre that helps victims of trauma - talks about the difficulties of social entrepreneurship. And Alexandra Shulman the editor of British Vogue on becoming a novelist. 

Producer Jane Thurlow
Presenter Jenni Murray.

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