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03/12/2010

On Woman's Hour - is it right to drop your schoolchild off at a student demo? The writer Brendan O'Neill claims some parents reliving their own days of youthful radicalism.

Is it right to drop your schoolchild off at a student demonstration? The writer Brendan O'Neill says that some parents are guilty of reliving their own days of youthful radicalism through their children. Is he right?

Science has taken away the doubt over paternity now that DNA tests are available - but is it is it always a good ideas to know who the biological father is?

Hansa's restaurant in Leeds celebrates its 25th anniversary - and is staffed entirely by women. Woman's Hour talks to its founder.

As part of a series of programmes across the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to mark International Day of Disabled People, the actor Julie Fernandez from the TV comedy 'The Office' tells us about the challenges of being disabled and fashionable.

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45 minutes

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Fri 3 Dec 2010 10:00

Chapters

  • Parents Pushing Their Youths to Radicalism

    The writer Brendan O’Neill debates with Sara Tomlinson, mother of a demonstrating teenager.

    Duration: 09:31

  • Fashion for Disabled Women

    Actor from ‘The Office’ and disability campaigner, Julie Fernandez, and Louise Dyson, who runs VisAble Modelling agency for people with disabilities discuss.

    Duration: 12:35

  • Hansa Dabhi

    Chef Hansa Dabhi's award-winning Gujarati cuisine

    Duration: 06:59

  • DNA Testing: The Moral Dilemna

    Dr Anna Smajdor, lecturer in Medical Ethics at the University of East Anglia, and Adrienne Burgess, Head of Research at the Fatherhood Institute discuss the moral confusion arising from DNA testing.

    Duration: 12:39

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Dec 2010 10:00

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