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Radio 4,02 Jun 2014,58 mins

Mpho Tutu; Women and the Liberal Democrats; Louisa Young

Woman's Hour

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The row about Lord Rennard's behaviour with women has resurfaced. How damaging is this to the appeal of the Liberal Democrats to women? And what about the lack of women Lib Dems at Westminster? Reverend Mpho Tutu explains how a tragic event in her own life led her to write a practical book about forgiveness with her father Archbishop Desmond Tutu. An advert for the charity Mankind Initiative was recently launched. With over 6 million views online already, its chairman Mark Brooks says its aim is to highlight that men are also victims of domestic abuse. Mark joins Polly Neate, Chief Executive of Women's Aid to discuss if by highlighting male victims it diminishes the situation of the women who statistically are more likely to experience domestic abuse. The writer Louisa Young talks about her new novel, The Heroes' Welcome, set just after the First World War, a sequel to her bestselling novel, My Dear I Wanted To Tell You. Plus an interview with Lady Mary Soames, Winston Churchill's last surviving child, who died on Saturday after a short illness. Jane Garvey interviewed her two and a half years ago after the publication of her memoir, A Daughter's Tale, an account of her early years.

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