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

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Sam Bailey

Jack Monroe

Helen Taylor

Hannah Betts

Anne-Marie Cockburn

Nicola Sturgeon

James Morton

Katie Langton

Anne Peacock

Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: X Factor's Sam Bailey; Powerlister Nicola Sturgeon; Jack Monroe

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Weekend Woman's Hour

21/12/2013

Weekend Woman's Hour: X Factor's Sam Bailey; Powerlister Nicola Sturgeon; Jack Monroe

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: X Factor's Sam Bailey; Powerlister Nicola Sturgeon; Jack Monroe

The X Factor's Sam Bailey on the win that changed her life. Presented by Jane Garvey.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including The X Factor's Sam Bailey on the win that changed her life. Presented by Jane Garvey.

X Factor's Sam Bailey on the win that's changed her life. How being broke and unemployed spurred on Jack Monroe to challenge complacency about food poverty. We talk to her in her Southend kitchen. The feminist appeal of Gone With the Wind seventy five years on with Professor Helen Taylor and journalist Hannah Betts. Anne-Marie Cockburn on losing her only child, Martha, to drugs and her struggle with the gap left by her daughter's death. A young woman describes her experience of reporting being raped to the police, and we discuss how specialist police teams are working to improve the way allegations of sexual violence are dealt with. MSP and Powerlister Nicola Sturgeon on the political career that's led to her becoming deputy first minister of Scotland and playing a central role in the independence referendum. Former Great British Bake Off contestant James Morton and his Cook the Perfect festive stollen.

Presented by Jane Garvey.
Producer: Katie Langton.
Editor: Anne Peacock.

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