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Radio 4,01 Oct 2013,58 mins

Edna O'Brien; Campus sexual politics; Flat shoes

Woman's Hour

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Edna O'Brien on her new collection of short stories written over 50 years - The Love Object: Selected Stories. We discuss sexual politics on campus with Kelley Temple from the National Union of Students and Megan Clark, student and blogger from Nottingham University. What do we say to women who want children but are unable to have them? Jane Garvey talks to psychotherapist Jody Day about her grief for the children she would never have, the reaction of others, her blog, and support group Gateway Women. And flat shoes and boots - fashion historian Amber Butchart and Alice Revel, editor of the online magazine Running in Heels, discuss what to wear this autumn and winter.

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