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Radio 4,25 Mar 2011,45 mins

25/03/2011

Woman's Hour

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Jenni Murray presents. Leonora Rustamova, the teacher sacked for writing a controversial book starring real life pupils, who has just lost her case against unfair dismissal. In these straitened times, more and more people are swapping their home with as a cost-effective holiday solution. But is it really so simple? 45 years after they were first created, the Monkees are back, reuniting for a British tour in May. We'll be asking if teenage crushes ever die? And the Irish poet Eavan Boland will be discussing her new book of essays; A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet.

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