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Radio 4,08 Jul 2014,45 mins

Hand Me Over Hand Me Downs; Life with a Disabled Child; Modern Slavery Bill

Woman's Hour

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Life with a disabled child - a listener, Jenny, talks frankly about the realities of being the main carer of her 10 year old daughter with Downs Syndrome. Why have triathlons become such a popular sport for women - Lucy Gossage, a professional Ironman triathlete and Kimberley Mangelshot, training for her first Ironman event, join Jane. Frank Field MP on the Modern Slavery Bill. It's estimated there are up to 4,600 slaves in the UK and globally the majority of slaves are women. So is modern slavery a feminist issue? Katharine McMahon on her new novel, The Woman in the Picture, based on one of the very first women to qualify as a lawyer. And Annabel Stockman, who began photographing the clothes of newly adopted Chinese children on the day she met and adopted her son Hua Hua. She has since photographed the belongings of more than 70 children born in China and adopted into families in Britain.

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