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Radio 4,22 Dec 2014,58 mins

Monica Grady on Space Exploration; Cerys Matthews; Inequality in the Workplace

Woman's Hour

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Space exploration with Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences. Songwriter and singer Cerys Matthews on her new song book, Hook Line and Singer. We look at the case of a pregnant woman in Ireland who is clinically brain-dead but being kept on a life support machine to keep her baby alive. Dr Jude Browne from the University of Cambridge looks at quotas for women, why they are an effective but blunt tool and explores other ways to address inequality in the workplace. And archive material of Jane Bown, the Observer photographer who died at the weekend. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Lucinda Montefiore.

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