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Radio 4,03 Jul 2014,45 mins

Hillary Clinton

Woman's Hour

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Hillary Clinton was offered the post of US Secretary of State in 2008 by Barack Obama who just months earlier had been her rival for the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency. She took the job and with it the challenges of representing her country on the world stage. She talks to Jenni about her new book "Hard Choices', about the tough decisions she faced in shaping US foreign policy. In 1973 Billie Jean King performed in the most watched tennis match ever. She played former tennis champion and keen chauvinist Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes. In a treat from our Archive she talks about a documentary made to mark the 40th anniversary of the match Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth published a controversial pamphlet in 1943 which argued against the Allied use of saturation bombing in Germany during the Second World War. The German city of Hamburg, two thirds of which was destroyed by Allied bombs has decided to honour her by naming a canal after her. Her daughter Baroness Shirley Williams and her friend Helge Rubinstein travelled back to the City last week and describe what it was like to receive the honour which, for different reasons, celebrates both their mothers. Glastonbury kicked-off the festival season in true muddy-style last weekend. We look at festival fashion, come rain or come shine. BBC Radio 1 presenter and fashion stylist Gemma Cairney joins us after several days looking good in the fields of Somerset, to tell us what's hot and what's not, and her big tips for a successful festival look this summer.

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