Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Woman's Hour

Magazines & Reviews

Podcasts

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

BBC Radio 4 LW

Woman's Hour: Lady MacMillan; Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter; women in prison

Factual

Lady MacMillan; Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter; women in prison

29/11/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Lady MacMillan; Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter; women in prison

Lady MacMillan on her husband Kenneth's ballets; Maeve Binchy's last book; women in prison

Lady MacMillan on life with Kenneth MacMillan and his ballet legacy, Maeve Binchy's last book 'A Week in Winter', women in prison, and the Woman's Hour Power List on rural affairs.

Lady MacMillan on her life with the choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan and on his legacy of ballets. Maeve Binchy's last book, A Week in Winter - we speak to her agent for more than thirty years, Christine Green. Women in prison, after years of proposed reform, is enough being done to safeguard vulnerable non-violent prisoners? We talk to Juliet Lyon of the Prison Reform Trust and Dame Elish Angiolini, the former Lord Advocate of Scotland. And the Woman's Hour Power List: Charlotte Smith tells us about the powerful women in rural affairs, food production and farming. 
Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Steven Williams.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Woman's Hour

Lady MacMillan; Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter; women in prison

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4