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Radio 4,29 Mar 2011,45 mins

29/03/2011

Woman's Hour

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With Jane Garvey. Does primary school class size make a difference to a child's chances? Tony Blair's Government brought in legislation to ensure that infants are taught in classes of no more than 30. But Michael Gove, the current Education Secretary believes that schools need better teachers not smaller class sizes. So who is right? Abortion law - new attempts to tighten guidelines surrounding terminations. We speak to the Japanese pianist Noriko Ogawa who's currently in London preparing for a fundraising recital in aid of victims of the disaster that has struck her country. And, the Orange Prize for Fiction is launching Orange Inheritance - a list of books that former Orange prize winner and other authors would most like to pass onto the next generation.

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