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Sat 05 May 2004Women's Hour - all weekTV Review: For Inside 252, seven ordinary women were plucked from obscurity to take part in . . . Excuse me? Celebrities? Oh, great! Where? Here? Oh.At the beginning of each night's programme, we were introduced to the women. Eileen Reid was described a showbusiness legend, but I guess that's fine, because it would be unfair to simply call her "the Twink substitute". Emma O'Driscoll is considered a "pop star"; Sorcha Furlong is a "soap star". The word has long lost its luminosity; but to call these people stars is like picking a pebble from a beach and declaring it to be a planet.