Bette Midler, Women MPs, Anna Krien
Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Including Bette Midler, women MPs, families with transgender children, and Maddy Prior on Steeleye Span. Presented by Jane Garvey.
The Divine Miss M - Bette Midler. What are the main political parties doing to increase the number of women MPs. Families with transgender children. Maddy Prior on her 45 year career in folk music. Anna Krien, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2014. June Mottershead whose father founded Chester Zoo - their story inspired the TV series Our Zoo. The impact of losing contact with grandchildren.
Presented by Emma Barnett
Producer: Claire Bartleet
Editor: Jane Thurlow.
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Bette Midler
Bette’s 2015 UK tour starts on the 9th July in Birmingham and then travels to Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds and finishes in London on the 19th July.
Just Over A Fifth of MPs Are Women – Will It Go Up In 2015?
Transgender Children
How would you react if your 4 year old son told you he should be a girl? This week’s drama of the week tells the story of 11 year old Amy and her parents as they make the decision about whether to give her the hormone blocking treatment that will stop puberty kicking in. And next month Lisa Williamson’s first novel – the Art of Being Normal, will focus on a transgender teenager.
Susie Green, who had to take her daughter Jackie to America to get hormone treatment, and Lisa Williamson join Andrea Catherwood.Ìý
For more information on this subject please click .Ìý
Maddy Prior
Anna Krien
Our Zoo: June Mottershead and her Family’s Legacy
June Mottershead, whose Ìý´Ú´Ç³Ü²Ô»å±ð»åÌý, joins Emma to talk about her extraordinary, from a chimpanzee called Mary, to an orphaned lion cub called Christy whom she hand reared from birth.
Our Zoo by June Mottershead is published by Headline
Losing Contact with Grandchildren
We often hear about that special relationship between grandparents and grandchildren – grandparents, often with more time on their hands, relishing doing things with their grandchildren.Ìý But it is estimated that there are about a million children in the UK who no longer have any contact with their grandparents. Helen Harris has written a novel, Sylvia Garland’s Broken Heart, with a grandmother and grandson at the heart of the novel.Ìý Jane Jackson set up the  soon after she lost contact with her first grandchild. The group now supports grandparents all over the UK and beyond.
 Helen Harris Sylvia Garland’s Broken Heart (Halban Publishers)
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Emma Barnett |
Producer | Claire Bartleet |
Editor | Jane Thurlow |
Interviewed Guest | Bette Midler |
Interviewed Guest | Maddy Prior |
Interviewed Guest | Anna Krien |
Interviewed Guest | June Mottershead |
Broadcast
- Sat 20 Dec 2014 16:0091Èȱ¬ Radio 4
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