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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: The American folksinger Peggy Seeger

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Weekend Woman's Hour

14/10/2017

Weekend Woman's Hour: The American folksinger Peggy Seeger

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Peggy Seeger on her memoir First Time Ever.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jenni Murray. Folk musician Peggy Seeger performs, and there is a discussion on the Harvey Weinstein case.

American folksinger Peggy Seeger performs and tells us about her new memoir The First Time and her UK wide music and literary tour.

The English actor and writer Dawn French talks about her relationship with her daughter, dealing with racism while married to Lenny Henry and her new book a biographical diary.

We discuss the Harvey Weinstein case, the film producer dealing with multiple allegations of sexual harassment, with Laura Bates of the Everyday Sexism Project.

How can we teach our children about consent? We hear from Deana Puccio the co-founder of the Rap Project and former New York District Attorney and Rachel Fitzsimmons a sex and relationship Education specialist about the best age to broach the subject.

The award winning poet Claudia Rankine examines her experience of race and racism in Western Society

As part of our Best Place to be a woman series we look at Social Isolation of older women. The report found that South Tyneside was one of the worst places to be a lone women over the age of 65. We hear from 89 year old Betty who lives alone in South Tyneside and from Professor Barbara Hanratty from the Institute of Aging at Newcastle University. 

Wonder Woman is the world's most iconic female superhero - but what do we know about her real life creators. A new film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women seeks to tell their story. Angela Robinson the director and screenwriter tells us about it.

Presented by Jenni Murray
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Beverley Purcell.

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