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Jane Garvey

Jenni Murray

Shirley Williams

Kate Adie

Joanna Bourke

Maggie Andrews

Jojo Moyes

Samantha Ellis

Angel Haze

Elizabeth Burton-Philips

Eileen Atkins

Maureen Baker

Delyth Morgan

Rebecca Myatt

Jane Thurlow

Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Drug addiction; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction; Drug addiction

08/02/2014

Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Drug addiction; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Drug addiction; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including World War One and its impact on women.

World War One and its impact on women. Couples in fiction. Sheryl Crow on cancer, adopting and country music. Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jane Garvey.

World War One and its impact on women. Baroness Shirley Williams, broadcaster Kate Adie, Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews discuss how WW1 changed women's lives.

Author Jojo Moyes and writer Samantha Ellis discuss fictional relationships. Which would survive beyond the last page of a book and which are doomed to fail?

Rapper Angel Haze talks about about her troubled upbringing and how she uses music to help others.

Elizabeth Burton Philips, founder of Drug Fam on how to cope when a member of your family is a drug addict.

Actor Eileen Atkins on performing Shakespeare's greatest female characters.

Sheryl Crow talks about cancer, adopting as a single mother and her latest country music album.

Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Baroness Delyth Morgan, Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign discuss raising awareness of breast cancer in older women.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.
Presenters: Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray
Editor: Jane Thurlow
Producer: Rebecca Myatt.

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Drug addiction; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction

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