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Woman's Hour: Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory

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23/08/2014

Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory

Helen McCrory as Medea, and encouraging girls into vocational courses.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jane Garvey. Including Jo Pavey, Helen McCrory, encouraging girls into vocational courses, and eating disorders and older women.

Jo Pavey discusses what it's like to be the oldest female European Athletics champion after winning gold in the ten thousand metres in Zurich. Austin Mitchell, Labour MP for Grimsby joins Jane Garvey to discuss his comments that women MPs were more likely to be interested in "small problems rather than big ideas".

What is it like to suffer from an eating disorder when you're in your 40s and 50s and how can women be helped? We talk to two women who've suffered from anorexia, and consultant psychiatrist Paul Robinson. Nia Reynolds on Claudia Jones the civil rights activist who in the wake of the Notting Hill riots established the first major celebration of Afro-Caribbean culture in 1959.

How can more young women and girls be encouraged to take a vocational route into male dominated careers like IT and engineering? The actress Helen McCrory on her new role playing the ultimate anti-heroine, Euripides's Medea. And she tells us what it's like to be married to a heartthrob. Susanna White, Anna Keel and Amy Walker discuss the lack of female directors in television and why it matters.

Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Jane Thurlow.

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