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Women's Right to Vote: marking 100 years

10/02/2018

Weekend Woman's Hour: Modern-day activism, Theresa May, First love

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The prime minister Theresa May on marking the suffrage anniversary.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jane Garvey. Theresa May, how to handle teenage first love and Ruby Tandoh on the pleasure of food.

As part of our suffrage centenary celebrations we hear from the Prime Minister Theresa May, would she have broken the law to help women get the vote - like the suffragettes? Or would she have stuck to persuasive campaigning like the suffragists?

How should parents deal with teenage first love? We hear from agony aunt Suzie Hayman and journalist Liz Frazer who's two oldest children are in relationships which started at school. 

The CEO and mother of nine Helena Morrisey talks about why we shouldn't 'lean in, but change the system' when it comes to gender equality.

We hear from two modern day activists Akeela Ahmen and Caroline Criado-Perez on what it's like to speak out.

The Great British Bake Off finalist of 2013, Ruby Tandoh, discusses her new book Eat Up! and the pleasure that can be found in all foods... from homemade tomato soup to ice cream.

Two female detectives tell us how they helped solve the case of a serial rapist in America. Stacey Galbraith an agent with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and Edna Hendershott a Commander with Westminster Police Department tell us about the important role collaboration played in prosecuting a man who had raped several women between 2008 and 2011.

Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie tell us about their new film Finding Your Feet, where they play sisters thrown back together into each others lives after one of the sisters discovers her husband has been having an affair with her closest friend. 

Presented by Jane Garvey
Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed
Edited by Jane Thurlow.

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