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Woman's Hour: Ladies' Loos, Family Secrets, Dame Stephanie Shirley

07/12/2020

Ladies' Loos, Family Secrets, Dame Stephanie Shirley

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Ladies' Loos, Family Secrets, Dame Stephanie Shirley

The programme that offers a female perspective on the world

What goes on in the ladies? Office gossip, getting locked-in, the most embarrassing moments, confessing to a stranger, a place for bonding, bullying, and bunking-off? We hear your stories about women’s toilets, with Comedian Shazia Mirza and Historian Claudia Elphick.  

Dame Stephanie Shirley – always known as Steve – joins Jane to talk about her career-spanning book of speeches So to Speak. Now 87, she’s a successful IT entrepreneur who revolutionised the workplace for women and is now a major philanthropist. She's in demand for public speaking and often starts by giving her own story of arriving here on the Kindertransport in 1939, one of 10,000 Jewish children fleeing Nazi Germany. She says she has done more since that day than she would ever have believed possible.

We continue our series on family secrets. Today we hear about a woman in her late forties who has a secret which has affected her life since she was a teenager. 

And we get the latest about vaccines from GP Sarah Jarvis.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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