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011336 |
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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 17634 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Abridged. |
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Duration: 1:13:36. |
| Summary |
Interviews, discussions, readings and poems celebrating motherhood in all its diversity.This compilation of extracts from the much-loved BBC Radio 4 programme Woman's Hour looks at the changing role of mothers over the last fifty years; the relationships that they have enjoyed with their children, how they have juggled the work/life balance and how they have challenged stereotypes and tested the boundaries of what being a mother means. All aspects of motherhood are here, single mothers, campaigning mothers, working mothers, Jewish mothers, mothers in law and even godmothers. Amongst the contributors are Margaret Thatcher, talking about women in government and her thoughts on childcare, and Dame Shirley Williams, who discusses her famous mother Vera Brittain. Also included are Sonia Keppel reminiscing about her mother Alice, mistress of Edward VII and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker Bowles; Laurie Lee reading from his famous memoir Cider with Rosie and poetry from Liz Lochhead. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Radio programs Great Britain.
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| Added Author |
BBC Audiobooks Ltd.
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| Added Title |
Woman's hour (Radio program)
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| ISBN |
1405699159 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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