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Women and their dogs; Nikki Gemmell

30/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Women and their dogs; Nikki Gemmell

Barking Blondes on loving their dogs, legal aid concerns, and designing plus-size fashion.

Barking Blondes Jo Good and Anna Webb on loving dogs, legal aid concerns, designing plus-size fashion, Nikki Gemmell on her new novel, and Dorothy Levitt, 'fastest girl on earth'.

How a passion for their dogs brought the Barking Blondes together. Jo Good and Anna Webb on how love of their pets defines their friendships and relationships. Concerns that government proposed changes will lead to a two-tier system. Designing plus-size fashion - could the fashion industry do more? Nikki Gemmell on her new novel, I Take You, which is a re-telling of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Dorothy Levitt "fastest girl on earth" - one of early female motorists to be included in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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