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Oct 2021
57m 22s

Sarah Everard; Intergenerational friends...

Bbc Radio 4
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Zoe Billingham, one of the top inspectors at Her Majesty’s of Constabulary, and Dame Vera Baird, the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales on the reaction to further details about Sarah Everard's murder and the subsequent life prison sentence handed down to the former Met Police officer Wayne Couzens.

Intergenational friendships, how is it different from being friends with someone your own age? Best friends 60 year old Sue and 33 year old Emily discuss.

The actor Lashana Lynch on making Bond history as the first black female 007 in 'No Time to Die'.

The woman whose husband of 15 years became a covid conspiracy theorist.

Flick Bayliss on her experience as a 'late life lesbian;, and writing lesbian erotica.

Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Dianne McGregor

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