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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: The Staves; fat-shaming; feminist teen bloggers

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Weekend Woman's Hour: The Staves; fat-shaming; feminist teen bloggers

04/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: The Staves; fat-shaming; feminist teen bloggers

Presented by Jane Garvey, including harmony from three sisters as The Staves perform.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week presented by Jane Garvey, including harmony from three sisters as The Staves perform.

Harmony from three sisters - The Staves perform. A blogger talks about her experience of 'fat-shaming' and how she's been subjected to verbal abuse in public. Britain's first female professional boxing coach on her hopes for her young fighters. Writer Sarah Dunant discusses the impact of the Borgias on history and their predilection for murder and intrigue. The online petition to keep women on our fivers. How the sisterhood is being divided by a new breed of elite 'XX Factor' women, according to Professor Alison Wolf. Teenagers taking a stand, here and in the US.
Presented by Jane Garvey.

Producer: Louise Corley
Editor: Anne Peacock.

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