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Radio 4,11 Jun 2011,60 mins

Weekend Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour

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Presented by Jane Garvey. Highlights from the Woman's Hour week including: Cerys Matthews, who shot to fame with Catatonia. We talk to Sarah Shourd, the American woman who survived being held hostage in the Middle East, Franca Sozzani the editor of Italian Vogue talks about the beauty of curvy women, Arundhati Roy on her essays on India, actor Samantha Spiro on her new role in Chicken Soup with Barley, and we celebrate 30 years of Alfie with children's author Shirley Hughes. Is shared parenting after a relationship breakup always best for the child? And what do grandparents today want to be called today? Nan, gran, grandad or something altogether different?

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