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03/05/2010

On the verge of her 60th birthday, Jenni Murray takes a look at the differences between the Baby Boomers and the 60-year-old women of previous generations.

Now We Are Sixty. On the verge of her sixtieth Birthday, Jenni Murray takes a look at the differences between the baby-boomers and the sixty year old women of previous generations.

As the women who were born in the years immediately after the war reach 'senior' status, what will their priorities be and is sixty really the new forty?

Jenni Murray celebrates her sixtieth Birthday with Helena Kennedy QC who was born on the same day.

Also on the programme: Liz Shorrocks [sociologist and Course Director of Creative Writing at the University of Bradford], and journalists Eve Pollard, Minette Marrin and Sarah Vine.

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Mon 3 May 2010 10:00
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  • Helena Kennedy

    Jenni introduces the special 60th programme and interviews her 'twin,' peer and QC Baroness Helena Kennedy, born on 12th May 1950.

    Duration: 07:03

  • Grammar School Girls

    How important was the educational ethos of the fifties and sixties in giving opportunities to young women that we’d never had before?

    Duration: 10:40

  • Is 60 the new 40?

    How much pressure is there to, as Germaine Greer put it, masquerade as a girl?

    Duration: 13:16

  • Resenting the Baby Boomers

    How does the next generation view us? As admired trailblazers or a generation that took what it could and then pulled up the ladder?

    Duration: 11:32

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  • Mon 3 May 2010 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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