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Radio 4,08 Feb 2014,58 mins

Weekend Woman's Hour: Angel Haze; Sheryl Crow; Women in WW1; Eileen Atkins; Drug addiction; Cancer over 70; Couples in fiction

Woman's Hour

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World War One and its impact on women. Baroness Shirley Williams, broadcaster Kate Adie, Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews discuss how WW1 changed women's lives. Author Jojo Moyes and writer Samantha Ellis discuss fictional relationships. Which would survive beyond the last page of a book and which are doomed to fail? Rapper Angel Haze talks about about her troubled upbringing and how she uses music to help others. Elizabeth Burton Philips, founder of Drug Fam on how to cope when a member of your family is a drug addict. Actor Eileen Atkins on performing Shakespeare's greatest female characters. Sheryl Crow talks about cancer, adopting as a single mother and her latest country music album. Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Baroness Delyth Morgan, Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign discuss raising awareness of breast cancer in older women. Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presenters: Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray Editor: Jane Thurlow Producer: Rebecca Myatt.

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