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Reni Eddo-Lodge

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Nimko Ali

Lorrie Moore

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Roger Lewis

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Woman's Hour: Daughters of Eve; Maya Angelou; 'boomerang' children

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Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali; coding in schools; #YesAllWomen; Kate Millett

31/05/2014

Daughters of Eve; Maya Angelou; 'boomerang' children

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Daughters of Eve; Maya Angelou; 'boomerang' children

Anti-FGM campaigners Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali. Maya Angelou. Living with adult children

Anti-FGM campaigners Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali. Maya Angelou archive interview and tribute from Reni Eddo-Lodge. Living with your adult children. Incontinence after childbirth.

We hear from Leyla Hussein and Nimco Ali, joint number six on our game changers list, about the work they are continuing to do challenging the practice of Female Genital Mutilation.

We celebrate the life of Maya Angelou with an archive interview and tribute from journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge.

Two brides-to-be discuss their expectations and motivations for their wedding days.

Lorrie Moore, one of America's leading short story writers, tells us about the art of writing and the pleasures of reading.

Incontinence in pregnancy and after childbirth is common and treatable but why do so few women do anything about it?

According to the Office for National Statistics 3.3 million UK adults in their 20s and 30s now live with their parents. We hear from two parents on the financial and emotional ramifications of having grown up children still at home.

And Imelda May plays her single It's Good to be Alive.

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