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5 reasons why being a redhead rocks!

1. You're a rare beauty
2.You're different and that should be celebrated!
3. Elizabeth I was a redhead and she was a badass
4. Elizabethans were so desperate to have red locks that they dyed their hair with sulphuric acid
5. 'The little redhead look'

Jenni Murray finds out more as she chats to Jacky Collis Harvey about the meaning of red hair and redheadness across time and culture.

First broadcast on Woman's Hour, 3 September 2015.

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