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Last broadcast on Tue, 4 May 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Presented by Jane Garvey.
Actress Gemma Arterton discusses going from blockbusters and James Bond to a low budget British thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
The divorce rate may be at its lowest rate since 1979, but for the fourth year running, twentysomethings had the highest divorce rate of any age range.
Why do so many of these so-called 'starter marriages' fail, and what can be done to give young couples better support?
When Sarita Mandanna started writing her first novel she got the highest advance ever paid by an Indian publisher for a debut novel. She joins Jane to discuss that book - Tiger Hills - the story of a secret love affair on a South Indian coffee plantation in the nineteenth century.
What do you if you want to grow your own food but don't have a garden or can't get an allotment? Anna Bailey reports on scheme in Brighton which pairs up gardeners.
And Dr Rachel Hewitt discusses the early history of Ordnance Survey maps.
Gemma Arterton
Talks about her new film ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’ and her rise to fame playing a Bond Girl.
Sarita Mandanna
The writer Sarita Mandanna talks about her first novel, Tiger Hills.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
ISBN: 978-029-785-9833
Dr Rachel Hewitt on the Map of a Nation
Dr Rachel Hewitt of Queen Mary College, London University, joins Jane Garvey to trace the Ordnance Survey’s early history.
Book - Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Dr Rachel Hewitt – due to be published by Granta in October.
Starter Marriages
Jane speaks to Anastasia De Waal a social policy analyst and Head of Family and Education at the think tank Civitas and Dorothy Badrick, a psychotherapist who runs pre-commitment courses for Relate.
Shared Gardens
Would you share your garden? Anna Bailey reports on a scheme in Brighton which pairs up gardeners.
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Chapters
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Chapter 1
Twenty somethings have the highest divorce rate of any age range. Jane speaks to Anastasia De Waal of the think tank Civitas and Dorothy Badrick, who runs pre-commitment courses for Relate.
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Chapter 2
Indian writer Sarita Mandanna talks about her first novel, ‘Tiger Hills’ - set in a coffee plantation in Coorg, southern India, in the 19th Century.
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Chapter 3
Anna Bailey reports on shared garden schemes which match-make gardeners with people who have gardens but not necessarily the time to look after them.
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Chapter 4
Gemma Arterton has quickly become one of the rising stars of the British film industry. She joins Jane to talk about her new film ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’.
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Chapter 5
Dr Rachel Hewitt of Queen Mary College, London University, joins Jane Garvey to trace the Ordnance Survey’s history, to the first
survey of the whole country in the 19th century.
Broadcast
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Tue 4 May 201010:00
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