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Woman's Hour: Lady Glenconner, Ukraine, Clever girls, The Clitoris

Lady Glenconner, Clever girls, The Clitoris

Lady Glenconner, Ukraine, Clever girls, The Clitoris

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Lady Glenconner, Ukraine, Clever girls, The Clitoris

Lady Glenconner, lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades, on her new memoir

Lady Glenconner, lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades, on her new memoir.

Lady Glenconner, Anne Tennant, the eldest child of the fifth Earl of Leicester, was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades. She says her mother brought her up to cope with a fundamental truth of her class and time: women must put up and shut up, and so had been taught to smile through life in high society despite the brutality of a husband who left her deaf in one ear. After the success of her first memoir three years ago a second has just been published. Joining Emma live in the studio she explains why she was compelled to write Whatever Next? Lessons From An Unexpected Life. 

President Zelensky has accused Russia of "crimes against humanity" after a new missile barrage caused blackouts across Ukraine.  Yesterday we heard of a two day old baby dying when a maternity unit was bombed in the southern Zaporizhia region.  How are these developments affecting women and girls? Emma hears from Jess Parker, BBC Correspondent in Ukraine at the moment.   This Saturday, the Ukrainian Institute in London, alongside other organisations, have organised an event to discuss sexual violence in the war in Ukraine.  Emma talks to one of the speakers, Anna Kvit, a research fellow at University College London looking into women in war and their response to war. 

With the release of Matilda the Musical in cinemas this week, Emma Barnett speaks to author and podcaster Daisy Buchanan and QI Elf and writer Anne Miller about being so-called 'girly swots' at school and how it has shaped them in adulthood.

You may have heard that the clitoris has 8,000 nerve endings, but that number comes from a 1970s study on cows. New research shows the clitoris actually has over 10,000 nerve endings. Does this increase in number matter? Emma asks science journalist Rachel E Gross and Dr Brooke Vandermolen, an NHS Obstetrics and Gynaecology Registrar.

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