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Rabeka Nurmahomed

Jane Thurlow

Adrian Dunbar

Kathy Lette

Hibo Wardere

Karen Elson

James Wynne

Pamela Butchart

Sue Bourne

Lisa Keech

Kate Lee

Gena Mour Barrett

Jenny Landreth

Woman's Hour: The Guilty Crush, Karen Elson, Hibo Wadere

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Rachel Nickell's son, Sporting boards, Karen Elson, Guilty crush

20/05/2017

The Guilty Crush, Karen Elson, Hibo Wadere

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The Guilty Crush, Karen Elson, Hibo Wadere

The unlikely appeal of Superintendent Ted Hastings. Hibo Wadere. Holidaying with mum.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week with Jane Garvey. Featuring the unlikely appeal of Superintendent Ted Hastings, and FGM campaigner Hibo Wadere on her return visit to Senegal.

We discuss why Superintendent Ted Hastings in the BBC's Line of Duty is the ultimate guilty crush. Adrian Dunbar who plays Ted Hastings and the author Kathy Lette discuss the appeal of the unreconstructed male.

We'll hear from the anti FGM campaigner Hibo Wardere about her recent trip to Senegal where she met communities who have abandoned the practice of FGM.

The Oldham born model Karen Elson talks about her life as a singer songwriter in Nashville.

We discuss the merits of school residential trips with James Wynne, Head of Science at Chesterfield School in Crosby and teacher Pamela Butchart author of children's book, There's a Werewolf in my Tent.

Documentary maker Sue Bourne on her latest film talking to people who have been told they have a terminal illness. Lisa Keech talks about the difference her cancer diagnosis has made to her life.

What makes someone want to go on holiday with their mother? We hear from Kate Lee who took her mum away in 2001 and 2008 when her dementia became more apparent and 24 year old Gena Mour Barrett who goes on holiday with her mum every year.

And the women who made swimming possible in the 19th Century: the writer and keen swimmer Jenny Landreth on her book Swell.

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