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http://www.bbc.co.uk/womanshour 27-07-2010 13:47:41
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'People would run up behind me and say: ‘Well done fella’’
🏃♀️ Laura Bird ran the London Marathon yesterday with a 25kg fridge strapped to her back.
She told Krupa Thakrar Padhy why she wanted to 'do this for the girls' &said she hopes it'll inspire others to chase their dreams ⬇️
Muriel Spark’s novel The Girls of Slender Means follows the hopes and dreams of a group of young women living in post-war London in 1945.
Gabriel Quigley tells Krupa Thakrar Padhy how she adapted the great novelist's seminal work into a play for The Lyceum.
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❓Have you heard of Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder?
Commonly underdiagnosed as ‘picky eating’, it involves people avoiding food or certain types of food. Krupa Thakrar Padhy speaks to Lisa, a mother whose son has the eating disorder, and Professor Sandeep Ranote from Beat
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Victims’ counselling notes will now have better protection during criminal investigations such as rape cases.
That’s thanks to an amendment tabled by Baroness Gabby Bertin – she joins Krupa Thakrar Padhy to explain why she thinks this is a step forward.
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‘Love and solidarity towards her has to be louder than the abuse’
Actor Susan Wokoma told anita rani why she co-authored an open letter to actress Francesca Amewudah-Rivers.
The black actress received racist backlash for being cast as Juliet, opposite Tom Holland as Romeo.
‘Registering to vote is the start to our voices being heard’ 🗳️
@jesscreighton1 spoke to @SharonNGaffka and Rosie Campbell
about the trends among young women voters, and why it’s so important to vote ⬇️
'People would run up behind me and say: ‘Well done fella’’
🏃♀️ Laura Bird ran the London Marathon yesterday with a 25kg fridge strapped to her back
She told Krupa Thakrar Padhy why she wanted to 'do this for the girls' & said she hopes it'll inspire others to chase their dreams ⬇️
‘It’s such a treat as an actor’
📺 As Blue Lights returns to our screens for series two, Sian Brooke, who plays Grace, a rookie police officer, spoke to Jessica Creighton about taking on the role for another series ⬇️
‘I wasn’t expecting it to be me who broke the record’
🏃♀️The morning after she broke the women's only world record at the #LondonMarathon , Peres Jepchirchir shared her reaction with @krupapadhybbc 🙌 ⬇️
❗️ ‘It’s not about criminalising parents, this is about keeping children safer’
RCPCH is calling for parents to be banned from smacking their children.Rowena Christmas told Jessica Creighton why she would support a ban in England & Northern Ireland ⬇️
'If one person was inspired yesterday from doing what I did, then job done'
🏃♀️ Laura Bird ran the London Marathon yesterday with a 25kg fridge strapped to her back.
She told Krupa Thakrar Padhy that she hopes it'll inspire others to keep going, even when it gets difficult ⬇️
‘I wasn’t expecting it to be me who broke the record’
🏃♀️ The morning after she broke the women's only world record at the #LondonMarathon , Peres Jepchirchir shared her reaction with @krupapadhybbc 🙌 ⬇️
'I had an email from a client saying: 'Please tell me Lord Sugar's not going to be at the front of my class next week''
This year's winner of The Apprentice, Rachel Woolford, told anita rani how it felt to win & whether Lord Sugar could have a new gig in one of her gyms 👀