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Radio 4,29 Nov 2012,58 mins
Lady MacMillan; Maeve Binchy's A Week in Winter; women in prison
Woman's HourAvailable for over a year
Lady MacMillan on her life with the choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan and on his legacy of ballets. Maeve Binchy's last book, A Week in Winter - we speak to her agent for more than thirty years, Christine Green. Women in prison, after years of proposed reform, is enough being done to safeguard vulnerable non-violent prisoners? We talk to Juliet Lyon of the Prison Reform Trust and Dame Elish Angiolini, the former Lord Advocate of Scotland. And the Woman's Hour Power List: Charlotte Smith tells us about the powerful women in rural affairs, food production and farming. Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Steven Williams.
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