Tagged with: Womans Hour
Posts (12)
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Listener Week
Jane Garvey
Woman's Hour Presenter
Jane Garvey talks about Listener Week on Woman's Hour, In Our Time and Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4.
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Feedback
Roger Bolton
Any Questions’ slip up, debating climate change, and is 5Live’s Radio Bloke back?
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The Woman's Hour Collection
Radio 4
Judi Dench, Mary Quant, Winnie Mandela, French & Saunders, Enid Blyton... A selection of the unexpected and delightful interviews that have been newly restored to the Woman's Hour archive.
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Radio 4 Drama: How To Have a Perfect Marriage
Nicholas McInerny
Dramatist
How To Have a Perfect Marriage is writer Nicholas McInerny's autobiographical drama about a gay man who comes out after 19 years of marriage. He discusses the real life situation behind the drama and how it was the most difficult thing he's ever written.
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The Woman's Hour Power List: How we found our Top 100
Ruth Watts
Producer, Woman's Hour
Woman's Hour Producer, Ruth Watts, outlines the hours of deliberation that went into choosing the Top 100 most powerful women in Britain today.
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Women and homelessness: Radio 4 St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal
Anna McNamee
The morning after I had visited The Connection at St Martins, I woke up at 5 am and wasn't able to fall back asleep. It was dark and cold - the timer on the central heating not yet having kicked in - and outside icy raindrops were pinging off the bedroom window. I pulled the duvet up to my chin ...
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Val McDermid's Village SOS
Val McDermid
Ed's note: Next week you can hear Val McDermid's five part Woman's Hour drama Village SOS on Radio 4. It's part of a larger project that includes a BBC One series and a BBC Learning campaign. More details at the end of this post - PM. It was a bizarre pitch. "We're making a reality s...
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Woman's Hour: Cook the perfect brownies
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
The Radio 4 blog popped over to the Woman's Hour studio to grab a few pictures of the chocolate brownies that Claire Burnet made on the programme this morning. The blog is pleased to be able to report that the brownies were truly delicious. Paul Murphy is the acting editor of the Radi...
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Stand up for Comic Relief - the contenders
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
As this video preview confirms, the brutal inter-station comedy smackdown that is Stand up for Comic Relief is under way. Six of the BBC's national radio networks are represented this time; Radio 4 by Woman's Hour legend Jenni Murray and the others by various presenters I can't quite bring mysel...
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Leaving Normal: a new comedy about gay adoption
Ian Iqbal Rashid
I was recently at the home of Hari and Matt (I've changed the names) - a friend from childhood and his partner, respectively - now new adoptive gay dads to two older children. The kids come from troubled backgrounds and are having difficulty settling into their new homes. They're testing both th...
