21/05/2010
Presented by Jenni Murray. The portrayal of women on Italian TV; the perils of cheap fertility drugs; and Welsh suffragette Lady Rhondda and the feminist journal 'Time and Tide'.
Presented by Jenni Murray.
Film maker Lorella Zanardi joins Jenni to talk about her campaign to see 'real' women on Italian television.
Ninety years ago this month, the magazine 'Time and Tide' was published for the first time. A ground-breaking political and cultural journal that was the mouthpiece of the feminist movement during the inter war years.
The number of multiple births is rising in this country and Professor Bill Ledger claims that the problem is being caused in part by the liberal use of cheap fertility drugs. He discusses his concerns with Jenni.
Can family dynamics be affected by education? Do those who haven't been to university feel left behind by offspring or siblings who have?
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Fertility drugs
Bill Ledger, University of Sheffield Medical School, and Clare Lewis-Jones of the Infertility Network discuss whether the liberal use of cheap fertility drugs is behind the rise in multiple births
Duration: 09:42
Women on Italian television
Film-maker Lorella Zanardo on her campaign to see 'real' women on Italian television
Duration: 08:45
Time and Tide magazine
Prof Angela John and Dr Catherine Clay discuss the history of the remarkable feminist journal Time and Tide, founded by the Welsh suffragette Lady Rhondda
Duration: 10:05
Alienated by education
How are family dynamics affected when some members receive a better education? With journalist Sheena Stephenson, family psychologist Dave Spellman and journalist Bea Campbell
Duration: 12:58
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- Fri 21 May 2010 10:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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