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Radio 4,25 Feb 2014,58 mins

Alice Herz-Sommer; Plus-size fashion

Woman's Hour

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Maternity leave - have we got it right in the UK? Writer Deborah Coughlin on the lack of plus size fashion on the high street; concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust, died at the weekend at the age of 110; The Office of National Statistics release new data on teenage pregnancy tomorrow - rates have fallen significantly in recent years - we explore the drop in numbers and why UK levels are still higher than those in other western European countries.

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