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Career Girls
Episode 2 of 5
Writer Rachel Cooke looks at five versions of the single woman. In this essay: career girls. Rachel recalls her own first tentative steps into working life; the loneliness and elation of making your own way in the world and considers portrayals of ambitious women in fiction and on screen.
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Tue 5 Jul 202222:45
BBC Radio 3
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- Tue 14 Apr 202022:45BBC Radio 3
- Tue 5 Jul 202222:45BBC Radio 3
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