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Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Emma Barnett. Each week we bring together three brilliant women to talk about life, work, love, possibly some sex, culture and maybe some politics. Everything that matters, of course, nothing off limits.

With me today, perched on the red velvet chairs of a seriously historic London pub, lots of

Toby jugs in a sentence, are

three women doing vital things.

Now, who've we got? B. Appleby, editor

of the female lead, a non-profit organisation

that celebrates female achievement and

diversity. She is also the author

of the children's book, What is

feminism? Why do we need it? Quite. Iona Bain set up the Young Money blog in 2011 with the aim of helping her generation be smarter about money. She won freelancer of the Year Award in 2018 and is the author of Spare Change, How to Save More Budget and Be be happy with your finances. Iona, you have

entered my life far too late. Ambrine Razia is the creator, writer and star of the BBC 3 show

Hanslow Diaries, for which she won a debut writer's award at the Edinburgh TV festival this year.

Her latest play is Pot, which focuses on teenagers in the UK care system and the risks they face of being

drawn into gangs. Ambri, you lost your mum recently, is that right? Yeah. I'm sorry first of all.

No, thank you. When did you lose her? So in January. In January. Yeah, this year. And how

are you finding the whole grieving process? Grief, I find, doesn't have a shape or a timeline.

So you feel like you've gone two steps ahead and then you'll go two steps back.

And you think, oh, I've overcome the anger phase of it now.

Well, that's fine.

And then someone will say something and you'll rage.

So it's like there's just

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