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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Anna Mudeka, Anne Robinson, Monica Galetti

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Mbira Music, Women's Workplace Rights, Unmasking of Elena Ferrante

08/10/2016

Weekend Woman's Hour: Anna Mudeka, Anne Robinson, Monica Galetti

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Anna Mudeka, Anne Robinson, Monica Galetti

Anna Mudeka performs Mbira music, and Anne Robinson discusses 21st-century parenting.

Presented by Jane Garvey. Anna Mudeka performs Mbira music, Anne Robinson discusses 21st-century parenting, and Monica Galetti cooks the perfect artichoke salad.

The Zimbabwean singer and dancer Anna Mudeka who specialises in the traditionally male Mbira music of her ancestors performs If I Were A Boy.

Anne Robinson talks about her new BBC1 series where she enters the lives and homes of British families to investigate attitudes towards pets, body image and in the first episode, 21st century parenting.

The professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge discusses Theresa May's Great Repeal Bill which will convert EU law into British Law. What effect will this have on current laws that enshrine women's rights?

The chef Monica Galleti cooks the perfect artichoke salad with lemon and fennel.

Peggy Orenstein talks about her new book Girls and Sex. What sorts of pressures and expectations are girls experiencing today - and why is their own pleasure one of the last things they consider in intimate relationships?

Jackie Clune on performing with the all-female cast in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Julius Caeser and The Tempest all set in a women's prison.

And we look at the etiquette of group texts whether between work colleagues, school friends or your family - how can you avoid making a social faux pas? The journalist Edwina Langley and the comedian Helen Thorn discuss.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor:Jane Thurlow.

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