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Compromise
It's the word of the week after events at Westminster, but isn't compromise usually a female trait?
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The Dukan Diet
French nutritionist Dr Pierre Dukan claims French women swear by his diet - but will it catch on here?
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Exam Hell
How families can avoid the Great Revision Battle.
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Toulouse Lautrec
A new exhibition at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery showcases his lesser known works.
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Toulouse Lautrec
Toulouse Lautrec is probably best known to most of us for his decadent posters of skirt twirling girls dancing the Can Can at The Moulin Rouge. But now a new exhibition 'High Kicks and Low Life:Toulouse-Lautrec Prints', on loan from the British Museum, is reintroducing British audiences to lesser known work including 'the Elles Portfolio' , a series of intimate sketches created by Lautrec whilst he was living among the prostitutes of Montmartre. To discuss the contrasts provided in the exhibition and Lautrec's love of women Jenni talks to Pat Hardy, curator at the Walker Art Gallery and Richard Thomson, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at University of Edinburgh.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
(All images by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec © The Trustees of the British Museum)
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The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool is the first destination for High Kicks and Low Life: Toulouse-Lautrec Prints, A British Museum tour. The exhibition will travel to four venues across the UK : Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: 14 May – 8 August 2010,Mima, Middlesbrough: 3 September – 21 November 2010,Bedford Museum: 15 January – 10 April 2011, National Museum Wales, Cardiff: 23 April – 17 July 2011 -
Exam Hell
Exam Hell! School exams are now under way until the end of June and it's not only pupils, but parents too who'll be eagerly ticking off the days until that last paper is handed in. Arguments over revision can fill the most relaxed home with domestic acrimony if parents and teenagers disagree on how best to prepare. Jenni is joined by Liz Quinn, Secondary Headteacher of the Year and by novelist and mother of three, Emma Burstall. How do you avoid the Great Revision Battle?
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Compromise
Compromise has been the buzz word of the week with all the events at Westminster. Women are often said to be better at compromising than men – despite this they were noticeably absent from the negotiations earlier this week – why if they really are so much better at it? What is compromise? How do you do it without just rolling over and getting walked on? What makes a workable compromise agreement? And are women really any more skilled at it than men? Jenni is joined by Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s Ambassador to the US (1997-2003) and Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (2003-2009)along with Bronwen McKenna, Director of Organising and Membership, UNISON to discuss the issues.
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The Dukan Diet
The F-Plan, Cabbage Soup, Scarsdale, Atkins and Maple Syrup – all diets we’ve tried but abandoned. Now we have The Dukan Diet and nutritionist, Dr Pierre Dukan, is in the UK this week for the launch of his book. He claims that for the last 10 years French women have been staying slim using the Dukan Diet – and that 1.5 million French women swear by it – on his book it says “5 million French people can’t be wrong”. So is this the definitive diet? Is it the one that works? Or is weight loss simply a matter of calories in and calories out? Jenni is joined by Dr Pierre Dukan and by Jacqui Lowdon of the British Dietetic Association to discuss why we get swept along by the latest craze?
The Dukan Diet
The Dukan Diet by Dr Pierre Dukan is published in the UK on 13th May by Hodder & Stoughton, price £12.99 ISBN-10: 144471032X
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BBC Radio 4Fri 14 May 2010 10:00 BBC Radio 4
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