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Jenni Murray

Sophie Powling

Jane Thurlow

Amma Asante

Prue Leith

Anne-Marie O'Leary

Richard Woolfson

Diana Athill

Alan Corbett

Katherine Jackson

Ruth Hunsley

Terri Apter

Woman's Hour: Amma Asante, Diana Athill, Prue Leith

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26/11/2016

Amma Asante, Diana Athill, Prue Leith

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Amma Asante, Diana Athill, Prue Leith

Amma Asante on directing A United Kingdom. Diana Athill remembers a 1947 trip to Florence.

Amma Asante on directing A United Kingdom. Plus why it's so difficult for male survivors of abuse to talk about their experience and Diana Athill talks about aging as she nears 99.

The director Amma Asante talks about her new film A United Kingdom - the true story of Seretse Khama, the prince of Botswana, and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948.

Prue Leith is a cook, restaurateur, food writer, Great British Menu judge, and novelist. She talks about her seventh novel 'Prodigal Daughter' and her decision to get married again at the age of 76.

Do parents spend too long looking at their mobiles? Anne-Marie O'Leary, Editor in Chief at Netmums and to child psychologist Dr Richard Woolfson discuss the pros and cons of smartphones.

In August 1946 Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her cousin Pen. Almost 70 years later she has published a recently discovered diary of the trip. She talks about the changing nature of travel, and about her approaching her 99th birthday.

Psychotherapist Alan Corbett explains why so few men are able to talk about the sexual abuse they've endured, and the difference long term therapy can make for some.

As the hairdressing industry gets ready for the British Hairdressing Awards next week, we hear from Karine Jackson, Chancellor of the Fellowship of British Hairdressers and Ruth Hunsley, Editor of Hairdressers' Journal about why there are not more women at the top.

This month's Late Night Woman's Hour is about friendship. Regular Woman's Hour listeners Julie Ann Richards and Sarah Adams-Greener discuss their friendship which spans over forty years and Dr Teri Apter, A psychologist at Cambridge University who studies female friendships explains the benefits friends can have.

And Alice Sara Ott plays Grieg's March of the Trolls for us.

Presented by Jenni Murray
Produced by Sophie Powling
Edited by Jane Thurlow

Interviewed guest: Amma Asante
Interviewed guest: Prue Leith
Interviewed guest: Anne-Marie O'Leary
Interviewed guest: Richard Woolfson
Interviewed guest: Diana Athill
Interviewed guest: Alan Corbett
Interviewed guest: Karine Jackson
Interviewed guest: Ruth Hunsley
Interviewed guest: Teri Apter.

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