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Radio 4,09 Aug 2011,45 mins

The beauty industry; ants; Margaret More; khat

Woman's Hour

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Jenni Murray talks to Ruth Brandon about her history of the beauty industry; do ants operate as the ultimate matriarchal society? How the humanist education of Thomas More's daughter Margaret changed the way women were schooled and shaped the English Renaissance and the dangers of chewing the plant khat.

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