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Woman's Hour: Robotics in school; Part-time work; Richard Mabey; Game Changers

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12/03/2014

Robotics in school; Part-time work; Richard Mabey; Game Changers

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Robotics in school; Part-time work; Richard Mabey; Game Changers

Ayshea Buksh talks to an award-winning all-girl competitive robotics team from N London.

An award-winning all-girl competitive robotics team, Richard Mabey, what makes a game changer, and how does working part-time affect your earning power? With Jenni Murray.

Robotics in schools. Our reporter Ayshea Buksh talks to an award winning all-girl competitive robotics team from North London about how their project has broadened their horizons and changed their career aspirations.

The TUC's Frances O'Grady on how going part time affects your earning power. So what can be done to prevent talent and experience being wasted when a women works part time?

Game Changers - the judges deliberations begin. And we discuss what makes a Game Changer with organisational psychologist Rachel Short.

Richard Mabey has written Dreams of the Good Life, a new account of Flora Thompson - author of Lark Rise to Candleford - which investigates the contradiction between the simple rural times she chronicled and the Bohemian, suburban life she aspired to.

Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Karen Dalziel.

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