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Radio 4,13 Nov 2014,58 mins

Sophia Loren on her fairy tale life

Woman's Hour

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Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning film star and Italy's most renowned and honoured actress. She joins Jenni to recount stories from her colourful career, her 56 year marriage to producer Carlo Ponti and her brief incarceration in an Italian prison. Why the maternal mortality rate across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has the potential to rocket by more than 20 times to one in seven women because of Ebola. The creators of the BAFTA and RTS award-winning 'Getting On', Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine discuss their new series 'Puppy Love'. How the Woman's Hour cooker - used by and complained about by some of the biggest names in world cuisine: Delia, Nigella, Jack Monroe, Jamie, Heston to name a few - could be yours if you make the winning bid in this year's Children In Need Auction. Plus Erin Pizzey and Jenni Smith recall the very first Refuge set up for the victims of domestic violence. Why was it needed then, what has changed now. Presenter Jenni Murray. Producer Beverley Purcell.

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