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The Truth About Exercise

Can you stay healthy on three minutes of vigorous exercise a week? Is it safe to have chemotherapy when you're pregnant? Plus Speech Debelle on her new album.

The Truth about Exercise; Can you stay healthy on 3 minutes vigorous exercise a week - plus a couple of walks a day, plus fidgeting. What impact does chemotherapy have on your unborn child? And two years on from her Mercury-winning debut, rapper Speech Debelle is back with a new album. Was winning a prize at the start of her career a help or a hindrance.

Producer Ruth Watts.

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Wed 22 Feb 2012 10:00
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    Duration: 10:24

  • Anges Desarthe

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    Duration: 08:40

  • Sweet Wine

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    Duration: 05:11

  • Speech Debelle

    Speech performs the single, "I'm With It", live in the studio.

    Duration: 09:08

  • The Truth About Exercise

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    Duration: 08:47

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  • Wed 22 Feb 2012 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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