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Radio 4,3 mins

Should knitting be an academic subject?

Woman's Hour

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Jane Garvey speaks to Linda Newington, of the University of Southampton, and Dr Carol Christiansen, Curator at the Shetland Museum, about the future of knitting, following the decision to remove it from the school curriculum in 2010. First broadcast on Woman’s Hour, 24 August 2010.

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