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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Listener Week

Weekend Woman's Hour: 24/08/2019

Weekend Woman's Hour: Listener Week

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Happy single women, book clubs and attention deficit disorder in girls.

Are single women being judged by society? Plus the inattentive type of attention deficit disorder in girls, the lasting appeal of the book club, and ending a long friendship.

Why does society judge women who are single? We’ll hear from listener Joy, Emily Hill author of Bad Romance and from the journalist Bibi Lynch.

Doreen and Virginia have belonged to the same book club, set up in 1965, for decades - is it one of the oldest in the UK? They're joined by Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie Carter who are the co-founders of the Black Girls Book Club to discuss why book clubs are so appealing to women.

We explore Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (inattentive type) in girls, with Heidi whose daughter was diagnosed at 14 and Dr Celine Ryckaert a clinical lecturer at King’s College London.

And we talk about the pain of a close friendship ending with Annabel Fenwick-Elliot senior content editor at The Telegraph and psychotherapist Hilda Burke.

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

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