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Woman's Hour: 23/07/2014

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Talking to children about their weight; Women and radio in the Arab World; Doris Lessing.

How to talk to children about their weight, the Arabic radio drama Worth 100 Men, Endurance - a new play inspired by athletes and performed by women from Glasgow, Doris Lessing.

The National Obesity Forum estimates that nearly 25 per cent of UK children are either overweight or obese by the time they join reception class in primary school. So should parents worried that their children are gaining too much weight broach the subject and how to do it? Jenni Murray talks to Candida Hunt from the charity Health, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young and Dr Billy White from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. 

Glasgow's Commonwealth Games open tonight. 'Endurance' is a new theatre production from A Moment's Peace Theatre Company & the Women's Creative Company. The project involved women from Glasgow who had never worked in the arts before. They researched the female athletes from around the world who had participated in the Games through the decades and the theatre piece draws together archive interviews of the athletes themselves with the local women performing their stories.

An Arabic Radio Fiction drama called ' Worth 100 men' which tells the story of the challenges faced by a woman journalist at a radio station, is being broadcast in 9 Arab countries during Ramadan, a popular time for screening soap operas and dramas in the region. The project was launched by the Womanity Foundation, which was set up for the empowerment of women and girls across the world. Jenni speaks to Maysoun Odeh Gangat , the Director of Radio NISAA, a woman's radio station based in Ramallah which has been broadcasting the drama and to Antonella Notari Vischer from the Womanity Foundation. 

Throughout the summer Woman's Hour will be discussing classic works of women's fiction. In this interview from 2008 Jenni talks to the Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing about her ground-breaking novel, The Golden Notebook.

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