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Radio 4,08 Sep 2012,58 mins

Weekend Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour

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Highlights from the Woman's Hour week including: Emma Thompson on taking up the baton from Beatrix Potter and writing a sequel to Peter Rabbit. Are GPs failing infertile women? Zdenka Fantlova was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust - a new play, The Tin Ring, tells her story. She explains the significance of the ring. Should we have any sympathy for 'the other woman'? Susanna Abse and Bibi Lynch discuss. The author, Rose Tremain, on her new novel Merivel, a sequel to the award-winning Restoration. Tanya Gold and Alice Peterson on the enduring appeal of romantic fiction. And Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall combines blackberries, apple and cream into the perfect fruity granita. Presented by Jane Garvey.

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