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Woman's Hour: Dancer Michaela DePrince, Women's Magazines, New Screening Tests for Babies

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07/01/2015

Dancer Michaela DePrince, Women's Magazines, New Screening Tests for Babies

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Dancer Michaela DePrince, Women's Magazines, New Screening Tests for Babies

Dancer Michaela DePrince, women's magazines and new screening tests for babies.

Presented by Jenni Murray. Dancer Michaela DePrince, women's magazines and new screening tests for babies.

Michaela DePrince was orphaned in Sierra Leone, adopted by American parents and is now a professional ballerina. Michaela talks about her life and how her dream to become a dancer came after a faded picture of a ballerina blew into her orphanage gates. After hearing an interview on Woman's Hour about the use of 'partial defence' in murder cases where adultery may have taken place, Hetti, a listener, contacted Woman's Hour about her friend, Joanna, who had been killed in 2010 by her estranged husband after a divorce battle. Hetti joins Jenni Murray to explain why she is calling for a Royal Commission on murder. We update on new screening tests given to babies, and look at women's magazines - with falling readerships who are increasingly turning to online, we get some magazine editors together to ask what is the future of women's magazines and what are they doing to survive?

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