Dame Jenni Murray has been the voice of Women's Hour on BBC Radio 4 for the last thirty-three years. But her route to the top of the broadcasting world was not an easy ride.

In this episode Jenni talks candidly to Arran about the issues with her weight, balancing her dream job with family and how to overcome setbacks in life.

Jenni's new book, Fat Cow, Fat Chance: The science and psychology of size is available here

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Michael Mansfield QC, described as 'The Kind of Human Rights Work' by a research, ranking and publishing firm The Legal 500. He has represented some of the most high profile cases and inquests in English law including the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes and Mark Duggan, the Birmingham Six, the McLibel case, the Hillsborough Disaster and the ongoing Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

The self-title Radical Lawyer sits down with Arran to discuss a wide range of topics from the chance for reflection from the Covid19 pandemic, and how to cope with the stresses of high-profile legal cases. We discuss the suicide of his daughter, Anna, and how this lead him and his wife setting up their charity, Silence of Suicide.

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