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Woman's Hour: Megan Mullally, Being Jane, The impact of TV show Girls

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Megan Mullally, Being Jane, The impact of TV show Girls

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Megan Mullally, Being Jane, The impact of TV show Girls

Playing Karen in the return of Will & Grace. Jane as a name. The end of the TV show Girls.

Megan Mullally talks about playing Karen in the return of Will and Grace, and her musical collaboration Nancy and Beth. Four Janes discuss names, and what impact has Girls had?

The two time Emmy Award winning US star Megan Mullally, known best for her role as Karen in the American sitcom Will and Grace, talks about her musical collaboration Nancy and Beth.

What's in a name? Jane Garvey talks to Dr Jane Pilcher Associate Professor at the University of Leicester, Jane Brodie an art director and the actor Jane Asher.

How should embryos remaining after IVF treatment be dealt with and who should make the decision about what to do with them? Kate and Becky both had IVF and discuss their experience and Juliet Tizzard director of the National Fertility and Embryology Association discusses the medical and ethical considerations.

Last Sunday Turkey voted in a referendum. The result was extremely close but President Erdogan's victory has increased his power. He is known for conservative views about women's rights. Emma Sinclair Webb is a senior researcher in Turkey with Human Rights Watch and Elif Shafak is a novelist who lives in the UK discuss the impact his rise may have on women in Turkey.

The last ever episode of the American comedy drama Girls aired on British television this week. Girls fans, journalists Pandora Sykes and Simran Hans, talk about its impact.

Maintaining dignity when you're receiving hospital treatment can be difficult, but we hear how important it is to remain active as part of your general recovery in hospital. Claire Robinson, co-founder of INGA Wellbeing, has designed gowns for people who need regular hospital treatment and Professor Brian Dolan is behind the End PJ Paralysis Campaign.

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