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How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
Executive producer Pippa Harris and writer Heidi Thomas both faced fertility issues.
- How Call the Midwife team drew upon their own experiences of motherhood
- Irvine Welsh on 'Juice' Terry Lawson from A Decent Ride
- Tenor Ian Bostridge on inspirational pictures and hurdy-gurdy music
- Sandi Toksvig on the need for equal representation for women
- Rose Tremain on The American Lover
- Sandi Toksvig on her favourite women in fiction
- Robert Macfarlane on an extraordinary coincidence
- Vikram Seth reads his moving poem, Caged
- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- John Boyne: The first review called it a novel of blush-making vulgarity
- Karen Armstrong: Freedom was only for selected privileged Europeans
- Anne Enright: It's nice to come home to a country I recognise
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