Too Old to be a Mum?

With no legal age limits on IVF treatment and biological boundaries being pushed ever further, how do we decide how old is just too old to be a new Mum?

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Christmas Tales

In this three-part series, Fiona Phillips focuses on three of our most enduring and best-loved, festive icons; Father Christmas, Angels and Christmas Trees.

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BOSNIA'S WAR BABIES

BBC World Service

Radovan Karadzic is on trial in the Hague, indicted for war crimes during the Bosnian conflict of the ‘90s.   These crimes included the army’s systematic rape of 20,000 women and children, which continues to have repercussions in the form of stigma, poverty, sickness, shame, and - for those women who bore children AND kept them - the added burden of teenagers asking difficult questions about their identity.  

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MARY MAGDALENE: SAINT OR SINNER?

Mary Magdalene’s vision of a risen Jesus was the spark that ignited the flame of Christianity, turning the Jesus Movement from a minor Jewish sect into a new world faith. Without her there may never have been Christianity.

Yet strangely, rather than celebrate her as a founder of the faith, the Gospels say almost nothing about her, the early Christian church branded her a whore and western art and literature have constantly reinvented her down the centuries. She remains one of the most mysterious women in history.

This programme goes in search of the real Mary Magdalene and asks whether all the conspiracy theories hide an even greater truth.

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