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Radio 4,12 mins

Dr. Helena Wright

Woman's Hour

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Dr. Helena Wright, the pioneer of family planning, looks back over the 50 years of the movement. She recalls the total ignorance about sex she discovered, meeting Marie Stopes and the World War Two contraceptive caps that became family heirlooms. Dr Helena Wright died on March 21, 1982, aged 94.

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