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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Vivienne Westwood, Gemma Arterton

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Vivienne Westwood; Nicola Sturgeon

18/10/2014

Weekend Woman's Hour: Vivienne Westwood, Gemma Arterton

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Vivienne Westwood, Gemma Arterton

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including Dame Vivienne Westwood and Supergrans.

Jane Garvey presents highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including Dame Vivienne Westwood on punk, politics and a career that has spanned five decades, Plus 'supergrans'.

Dame Vivienne Westwood talks about punk, politics and a career in fashion that has spanned five decades.

Technology giants Facebook and Apple are to help female employees in the US to pay for the cost of freezing their eggs. So does this level the playing field for women who want to delay motherhood until their career is further advanced or does this make a problem out of women having children?

Are our murder laws sexist? Jeremy Horder, Professor of criminal law at the London School of Economics says his research seems to suggest courts are more lenient on a man who kills his partner when she's been unfaithful.

The children's author Kate Saunders discusses her new book â€" a sequel to E Nesbit's '5 Children and It'. Gemma Arterton tells us about her starring role in the new West end musical Made in Dagenham. US blogger Linda Tirado discusses her rise to fame after her blog on being poor went viral.

And Baroness Shirley Williams and Eve Pollard discuss combining a demanding job with being a hands-on grandmother.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed
Edited by Jane Thurlow.

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