Remarkable Women of 2011

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Jane Garvey celebrates the stories of remarkable women from 2011 including Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi and is joined by journalists Sue Lloyd-Roberts and Nita May to discuss the pro-democracy leader's struggle and future. Margaret Humphreys is a social worker whose story is told in the film "Oranges and Sunshine" which reveals what happened to thousands of British children taken from their birth parents and sent abroad for a "better life". Former head of M15 Eliza Manningham-Buller on her role as its director at the time of the Iraq war. Wendy Butler talks about the diagnosis with pancreatic cancer that was to change her life - why are survival rates still so poor? Astronaut Colonel Catherine 'Cady' Coleman returned from a five month tour of duty on the international space station in May where she accomplished an unusual task - playing a flute duet in space. Karyn McCluskey discusses the unit she set up to tackle violence in Strathclyde which brings together gang members and those whose lives have been affected, such as Joyce Young whose son died in a knife attack. And we hear from Betty Morgan - who became the World Indoor and Mixed Pair Bowls Champion this year.