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Fiorella Files Episode 54-Lonely Courage, On the Beach, Agatha Raisin Lonely Courage – Rick Stroud This is the story of the SOE women – British, French, Polish, American – who were parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe to work with local resistance groups. They were young, courageous and all had their own reasons for risking their lives taking part in the most dangerous missions of the Second World War. Some lived to […]

Fiorella Files Episode 53-The Abolition Of Woman, Poor Banished Children, A Most Dangerous Innocence. The Abolition of Woman  Can you be a pro-life feminist? In a world in which baby girls are killed in utero in their hundreds of thousands, women are forcibly sterilised in the name of China’s One Child Policy and where the poverty trap is used to coerce women in developing countries into renting out their wombs […]

Fiorella Files Episode 52-The Beauty Myth, Midnight’s Children, Shadowplay The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolf First published in the 1990s, Naomi Wolf’s book takes a long, hard look at America’s beauty industry, both the burgeoning cosmetic surgery market, through which women are led to believe that self-mutilation is the only way to achieve real beauty, and the multi-million dollar dieting industry. Wolf looks at the messages given to young women […]

Fiorella Files Episode 50-War Doctor: Surgery On The Frontline, Jamaica Inn, A Very British Coup War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line – David Nott Discover the story of a British trauma surgeon who has spent years travelling to the war torn corners of the world, saving lives in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Sierra Leone. Heart-breaking, stomach-churning, terrifying but always startlingly honest, this is an account of the life […]