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At the end of 2008, Hillary Clinton was offered the post of US Secretary of State. The man offering her America’s top diplomatic job, Barack Obama, had, just months earlier, been her rival for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency. And, she had just spent the last dozen weeks campaigning for him to become president. She took the job and with it the challenges of representing her country on the world stage for the next four years. She has just written ‘Hard Choices’, a book about the tough decisions she faced in shaping US foreign policy. Jenni talks to Hillary Clinton about life at the political top table.

In 1944, Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth and Testament of Friendship, published a controversial pamphlet which argued against the Allied use of saturation bombing in Germany during the Second World War. Seeds of Chaos: What Mass Bombing Really Means was largely rejected in Britain and the US, but the German city of Hamburg, two thirds of which was destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943, has decided to honour Vera Brittain by naming a canal after her.Ìý On the 28th of June, Vera’s daughter Baroness Shirley Williams and her friend Helge Rubinstein, whose German Jewish family became refugees in Watford in 1939, took part in a ceremony to cement the Anglo-German friendship and to pay tribute to Vera Brittain’s pacifism.Ìý Baroness Williams and Helge join Jenni to describe receiving the honour which, for different reasons, celebrated both of their mothers.

In a treat from – we hear fromÌý six times Wimbledon singles Champion Billie Jean King.Ìý In 1973 that she performed in the most watched tennis match ever. She playedÌýformer tennis champion and keen chauvinist Bobby Riggs in The Battle of the Sexes. And she won.Ìý Last year a documentary about the match and Billie Jean’s battle for equal pay and treatment was released to mark the 40th anniversary of the match. She talked to Jenni alongside ÌýStacey Allaster, Chief executive and chairman of theÌý Women’s Tennis Association about the documentary and her life on the tennis courts.

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After a weekend of Glastonbury kicked-off the festival season in true muddy-style, we take a look at festival fashion, come rain or come shine.Ìý Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 1 presenter and fashion stylist Gemma Cairney joins us after several days looking good in the fields of Somerset, to tell us what’s hot and what’s not, and her big tips for a successful festival look this summer.