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Hillary Clinton once said of Helen Clark: 鈥淗er opponents have observed that in the event of a nuclear war, the two things to emerge from the rubble will be the cockroaches and Helen Clark鈥� and there is no doubt that the former Prime Minister of New Zealand is a formidable political force. She was her country鈥檚 Prime Minister [from 1999 to 2008] and in 2009, she became the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme [the third highest UN position]. She is the first woman to lead this organisation and earlier this year, she was appointed to the role for another four-year term. She is also ranked 21st on the Forbes list of most powerful women in the world. Helen is in London to attend the and she talks to Jenni about women in leadership and about the progress being made to realise Millenium Development Goals which aim to reduce maternal mortality and provide universal access to reproductive healthcare.听

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This month, the 麻豆约拍鈥檚 100 Women season seeks to shine a light on life for women in the 21st Century. Throughout October, there will be special reports and programmes on 麻豆约拍 TV, radio and online presented by our correspondents around the world as they reveal the risks, challenges and opportunities women face every day, in every country. The 100 Women season concludes with a conference next Friday in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London when 100 women from around the world meet to debate the big issues affecting women today. The conference will be streamed online and broadcast live on 麻豆约拍 World News TV and on World Service radio.

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This Saturday/tomorrow evening, a special concert 鈥� called Singing to Survive - is being staged in Chichester to commemorate the 70th anniversary of a very unusual choir. In the September of 1943, female internees at the Japanese civilian internment camp in Palembang, Sumatra created a vocal orchestra. Many of these women were evacuees from Singapore who had been shipwrecked by Japanese bombs the previous year and they were to become prisoners for over three and a half years. During captivity, British internee Norah Chambers (who had studied at the Royal Academy of Music) formed a vocal orchestra with Presbyterian missionary, Margaret Dryburgh. Together they jotted down musical scores from memory and re-arranged them into four-part vocal scores. They created thirty pieces in total - including such classics as Dvorak鈥檚 Largo and Ravel鈥檚 Bolero. By using only vowel sounds they overcame language difficulties. This weekend, the Chichester Women鈥檚 Vocal Orchestra will sing some of the pieces arranged by Norah and Margaret. Jenni talks to Margie Caldicott 鈥� who is the daughter and grand-daughter of two of the Palembang internees as well as one of the organisers of Singing to Survive. They are joined by Tenko actress Louise Jameson who is also taking part in Saturday鈥檚/tomorrow鈥檚 concert reading diary extracts, poetry and prose written by Margaret Dryburgh and other internees.

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鈥楽inging to Survive鈥� is being staged at St Paul鈥檚 Church in Chichester at 7.30pm on Saturday, 26th October 2013. SOLD OUT

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Throughout October the 麻豆约拍鈥檚 100 Women season has been reporting on what life is like for women across the world; looking at the risks, challenges and opportunities women from all walks of life face every day. 听On Friday 25 October the season concludes with a unique event at Broadcasting House which brings together 100 women from around the world to debate the big issues affecting women today.听听One of the themes being discussed is how women are represented by the media.听Two of the delegates, , journalist & managing editor of Chime for Change, a global movement for women鈥檚 rights and , psychotherapist & writer and campaigner with Endangered Bodies join Jenni from the听conference.

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