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Radio 4,03 Dec 2015,58 mins

Listener Week, Knitted art, Being vegan, Santiago at 70, Selling the family home

Woman's Hour

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In the fourth of our Listener Week programmes we talk to listeners Hannah Phoebe Bowen and Lunda Kinnard about what attracts them to their vegan lifestyles. 70-year old Woman's Hour listener Maggie de Vos recalls how she walked 500 miles across Spain on a pilgrimage from Pamplona to Santiago. She self-published her diary 'Santiago at Seventy', and tells Jenni what motivated her to set out alone. As part of our series Women in One, reporter Abigail Hollick asks a woman and her husband sitting on a bench by Albert Dock in Liverpool about bringing up their children. Listeners feedback about the Woman's Hour item 'Getting Your Dream Job'. 22-year old textile design graduate and Woman's Hour regular listener Alice Blackstock from Bangor in Northern Ireland describes how she creates art on her 1950s knitting machine. Listeners Sophie Jonas-Hill and Joan Willows discuss the emotional impact of selling the house they grew up in. Presenter: Jenni Murray.

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