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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

Jenni Murray

Evelyn Glennie

Annie Nightingale

Jackson Kirkman-Brown

Sheena Lewis

Natasha Walter

Aminatta Forna

Deanne Jade

Holly Desai

Emily Young

Laura Ford

Anne Fine

Rabeka Nurmahomed

Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Annie Nightingale, Dame Evelyn Glennie

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Annie Nightingale, Dame Evelyn Glennie

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Annie Nightingale, Dame Evelyn Glennie

Annie Nightingale: 50 years in music. Dame Evelyn Glennie. The Handmaid's Tale. Anne Fine.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, with Jenni Murray. Annie Nightingale talks about her 50 years in the music industry. Plus Dame Evelyn Glennie, male fertility and Anne Fine.

The Radio 1 and 1Xtra broadcaster Annie Nightingale talks about her 50 years in the business and her enduring passion for new music. Dame Evelyn Glennie on career as a solo percussionist which has spanned more than 30 years.

Should men, as well as women, be concerned about their biological clocks? Natasha Walter and Aminatta Forna discuss how Margaret Atwood's classic novel 'The Handmaid's Tale' first published in 1985 reflects current trends in the world.

The dangers of health and fitness apps that track the calories consumed. Two leading British sculptors, Emily Young and Laura Ford describe their work and what it's like to be a woman in what is still a man's world.

Anne Fine on her book Madame Doubtfire which she wrote in 1987 and the impact of divorce on children then and now.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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