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Women enter the workplace in ever increasing numbers.

Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences. As their stories unfold we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared. Today, women enter the workplace in ever increasing numbers.

Virginia Nicholson's books include Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, which was broadcast as a Book of the Week.

Read by Fenella Woolgar
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

15 minutes

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  • Wed 4 May 2011 09:45
  • Thu 5 May 2011 00:30

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