With the General Election no more than four months away we've been looking at issues that might sway the way you vote. Today Jane Garvey talks to Liberal Democrat leader Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP.
Last week, many of Mrs Thatcher's personal papers from her first year in office were put online. A slip of paper inside her personal diary for 1979 showed her diet then consisted mainly of eggs. Edwina Currie talks about the salmonella scare and Mrs T's egg diet, and nutritionist Kat McDonald and che ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Woman's Hour 05 Feb 10With Jenni Murray:
Winning Women's Votes - Women at Westminster: Why, almost 100 years after the first woman took her seat in the House of Commons, do women still make up less than 20% of MPs? With Edwina Currie, Oona King and Sue Doughty.
Dating @ 60: A group of predominantly older women writers discuss their publication, Dating @ 60 and other Tribulations, a collection of poems about the rush of romance in the retired generation.
PeopleQuake is the title of a new book by scienc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
WHNews: Woman's Hour 04 Feb 2010With Jenni Murray. Today, Natasha Walter; political power for women in India; Margaret Forster; and the joys of solo activities.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Woman's Hour: 3rd February 2010Novelist Siri Hustvedt on her book The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves; Equal pay 40 years on; your emails on older drivers; Iris Apfel and Zandra Rhodes on wearing bright colours.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
WHNews: Tues 2nd February 2010Jane Garvey talks to singer/songwriter Nanci Griffith about her career so far, and her latest album The Loving Kind. Insurers have supposedly identified a new risk category – older female drivers. Until the age of 60 men have a worse accident record than women. But after that age, women are increasingly responsible for motor insurance claims. Edmund King, President of the AA, and motoring commentator, Maria McCarthy, talk about these changes. Denise Affonço’s comfortable life in Phnom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |