Children and Organ Donation; the Law on Cohabitation; Lullabies; Iron Age Women
Presented by Jenni Murray: Children and Organ Donation; the Law on Cohabitation; Lullabies from around the world; Women of the Iceni tribe in Iron Age Britain.
Presented by Jenni Murray. There is an increasing shortage of children's organs being donated in the UK. This has prompted a leading doctor at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital to ask if discussions about organ donation should become a mandatory part of the National Curriculum. At what age are children mature enough to take such a decision? The government has announced it won't be changing the law on cohabitation - despite recommendations by the Law Commission to do so. So should cohabiting couples be given any legal protection? Lullabies from around the world: what do they tell us about the culture they come from? Women in the Iron Age: what role did women play in the construction of an Iron Age causeway that has been excavated in East Anglia?
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Cohabitation
Harry Benson, director of the Bristol Community Family Trust, and senior family lawyer Marilyn Stowe discuss legal rights for cohabitees.
Duration: 10:50
Children and Organ Donation
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital's Dr Joe Brierley and medical ethicist Professor Bobbie Farsides on whether it's right to encourage chihldren to donate.
Duration: 14:11
Women and The Iron Age
Birmingham University's Kristina Krawiec on how an archeological dig in Norfolk sheds important light on Boudicca's tribe, the Iceni.
Duration: 08:15
Lullabies
What do lullabies tell us about the culture from which they spring? Irene Watt from The University of Aberdeen explains.
Duration: 08:47
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- Fri 23 Sep 201110:00BBC Radio 4
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