Weekend Woman's Hour
With Jane Garvey. Includes an interview with CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour, the gender politics behind tennis mixed doubles and the use of the hunger strike as protest.
With Jane Garvey. Including an interview with CNN's leading international correspondent Christiane Amanpour; the gender politics behind mixed doubles in tennis; writers Zoe Heller and Esther Freud on creating unlikeable characters in fiction; the origins of the hunger strike, its suffrage history and use today; women and the burkha; the motivation behind the desire to change sex; and novelist Sarah Dunant on convent life in Renaissance Italy.
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- Sat 4 Jul 2009 16:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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