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Woman's Hour: Child-free couples; intermittent fasting diets; novelist Ann Cleeves

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Child-free couples; intermittent fasting diets; novelist Ann Cleeves

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Child-free couples; intermittent fasting diets; novelist Ann Cleeves

Are child-free couples happier than those with children? With Jane Garvey.

Are child-free couples happier? Plus WH power-lister and Unilever UK chairman Amanda Sourry, Krista Varady and Joanna Blythman on fasting diets, and author Ann Cleeves.

Child-free couples are happier than those with children - so says a new Open University report out this week. So can you have children and a good relationship? Lucy Beresford, who doesn't have kids, Deborah Coughlin, who is unsure about having them, and Christine Northam from Relate join Jane to discuss. Plus Powerlister and Chairman of Unilever UK, Amanda Sourry, on her life and career. Intermittent fasting diets - Dr Krista Varady discusses these and her new 'every other day diet', along with Joanna Blythman, author of What To Eat. And novelist Ann Cleeves on her latest Vera Stanhope book, Harbour Street.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Steven Williams.

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