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Radio 4,26 Jun 2013,45 mins

Billie Jean King

Woman's Hour

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Billie Jean King talks about "The Battle of the Sexes" a film about her fight for equality in tennis and Stacey Allaster, the current CEO of the WTA, discusses 40 years of the women's tour. Audrey Simpson, Director of the Family Planning Association, in Northern Ireland on legislation around abortion. The economics of childcare series: informal arrangements, how do they work? Caroline Wilkinson, Professor of Craniofacial Identification, on her work and her most recent project working on a facial reconstruction of Mary Queen of Scots. Radha Bedi reports on the reality of life in India for her documentary, "A Dangerous Place to be a Woman".

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