Woman's Hour celebrates 80 years from the Glasgow Women's Library
Woman's Hour

Woman's Hour celebrates 80 years from the Glasgow Women's Library

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 7, 202657 min
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Launching the theme of our 80th birthday year: "Use Your Voice", we celebrate live from the Glasgow Women's Library in Scotland, the sole accredited museum of women’s history in the UK. Nuala McGovern is joined by guests: Women's Health Champion for Scotland Dr Anna Glasier, social media influencer and campaigner Fats Timbo, professor of private law Jane Mair and poet and writer and former Makar, Jackie Kay. We hear from some of the Woman's Hour archive including suffragette Mary Richardson from 1957, a woman on breast cancer from 1969, a woman called Candida talking about coming ou...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. episodes twice a week. Find the Haunted Library wherever you get your podcasts. Christmas. Christmas is the first Christmas. We are live from the Glasgow Women's Library in Scotland,

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the sole accredited museum of women's history in the UK, and we have a live audience. Now, during this hour we are going to delve into our illustrious archives to reflect on eight decades of women telling their stories

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and sharing their lives. The theme for our anniversary is use your voice. So to that end, we will be revealing the results of our exclusive poll.

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