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Welcome to Late Night Women'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.

Anne Vreen 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.

And 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 Happy happy with your finances. Iona, you have entered

my life far too late. Thank you to all of you for joining me. Right, well, before this gets

too lovely, B, you want to talk to us about male friendships. Have you got any left? I have, but

sadly, I feel like the older I get, the harder it is to maintain male friendships

as everyone starts to, you know, get married and have children and we're not all in our

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