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Radio 4,02 Sep 2010,45 mins

02/09/2010

Woman's Hour

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Dame Ellen MacArthur talks to Jenni about her memoir 'Full Circle' and the launch of her Foundation. Great Dixter is famed as the home of gardening legend Christopher Lloyd, but his mother Daisy was key to its formation, we hear how. Is there a backlash against home births? The Royal College of Midwives is worried about a trend away from home births in Holland, the USA and Australia and fear the impact this might have on the UK. And as the controversial TV drama 'Bouquet of Barbed Wire' is updated, Andrea Newman talks about her 1960s novel which inspired the series.

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