Juliet Gardiner on Radio 4′s Women’s Hour

From the BBC website:

Today Woman’s Hour goes back to the 1930s.  It was the decade that began with Amy Johnson’s epic flight to Australia and ended with Vivienne Leigh winning the Oscar for Best Actress for Gone with the Wind. It was also the decade of the Great Depression, the abdication and appeasement, as the country drifted towards the Second World War. But how did all this impact on the lives of ordinary British women? How far were they ruled by domesticity?

Click here to listen today’s episode of Radio 4′s Women’s Hour, featuring Juliet Gardiner discussing her new book, The Thirties.

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