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Weekend Woman's Hour

The best bits of the Woman's Hour Takeover Week including guest editors Angelina Jolie Pitt, Mary Berry, Eniola Aluko, Jackie Kay and Professor Sunetra Gupta.

Food writer Mary Berry discusses her love of girl guiding and the great outdoors.

The England and Chelsea footballer Eniola Aluko. wanted to discuss the important role sport can play in the lives of women. We hear from the Sports journalist Anna Kessel and the football coach Anni Zaidi.

The newly appointed Makar - the Scottish National Poet Jackie Kay inspired a look at what it's like to deal with the grieving process when there is a difficult of unresolved relationship with the deceased. The Pyschotherapist and agony aunt Philippa Perry gives us her thoughts.

The actor, film director and United Nations special envoy responsible for refugees, Angelina Jolie Pitt, tells Jenni Murray about her experiences of witnessing the lives of women and children in refugee camps.

The acclaimed scientist and novelist Professor Sunetra Gupta wanted to explore whether writing about food can be a high literary form? The literary critic Rachel Cooke and Professor Vesna Goldsworth, the author of a memoir, Chernobyl Strawberries, discuss.

The England and Chelsea footballer Eniola Aluko looks at how you find a partner when you are kept busy by your career? And how can you find a man not intimidated by your success? Dr Suzanne Doyle-Morris the author of 'Female Breadwinners: How to make relationships work? And Meenaa AzMayesh an associate Lawyer in Denton's London office discuss.

And the Food writer Mary Berry looks at how gardening can be used as therapy. Dr Sam Everington, a GP in London who helped set up a garden in a park for some of his patients and Tara a mum of 6 who has benefited from gardening as a therapy, discuss.

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58 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jane Garvey
Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor Rebecca Myatt
Interviewed Guest Mary Berry
Interviewed Guest Eniola Aluko
Interviewed Guest Anna Kessel
Interviewed Guest Annie Zaidi
Interviewed Guest Jackie Kay
Interviewed Guest Philippa Perry
Interviewed Guest Angelina Jolie Pitt
Interviewed Guest Sunetra Gupta
Interviewed Guest Rachel Cooke
Interviewed Guest Vesna Goldsworthy
Interviewed Guest Suzanne Doyle-Morris
Interviewed Guest Meenaa Azmayesh
Interviewed Guest Sam Everington
Interviewed Guest Tara

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  • Sat 18 Jun 2016 16:00

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