Cut-price dental work from eastern Europe, without the need to travel. With Peter White. 
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Karen Gillan
Karen Gillan on playing Dr Who's latest companion, Amy Pond
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The future is not female
Journalists Mary Ann Sieghart and Joan Smith discuss why the 'female future' we've been promised has failed to materialise.
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Dad and daddy
Gay couple Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow on bringing up their family of five
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Esther Fairfax
On her mother, the 1970s fitness trainer Lotte Berk.
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Karen Gillan
A few month ago actress Karen Gillan was virtually unknown. Now she’s a household name in all homes where Doctor Who is watched. Jenni talks to Karen about playing the Doctor’s feisty, witty and determined assistant Amy Pond.
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The future is not female
According to a recent report from UK Feminista, women continue to be under-represented in British cultural life, and in politics, the church and academia. Journalist Mary Ann Sieghart says that for at least 20 years we have been fed the line that the 'Future is Female'. But why has the future has always failed to materialise? She discusses this with journalist Joan Smith.
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Dad and daddy
Gay couple Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow sparked a furore in 1999 when they travelled to the U.S. and used donated eggs and a surrogate mother to become the fathers of twins. The children became the first in this country to be registered as having two fathers and no mother. Four years later they had a son, and earlier this year they became the fathers of another set of twins. They join Jenni to discuss their unusual family and how they have found being the parents of five.
'Cutting Edge: My Weird & Wonderful Family' will be shown on Channel 4 on 21 July at 9pm -
Esther Fairfax on her mother Lotte Berk
Lotte Berk became world famous as the devisor of the Lotte Berk Technique, a revolutionary fitness programme that led her to great fame and wealth during the 1960s and 70s. She was an outrageous, eccentric character renowned for her open views about sex and her list of famous clients. But her relationship with her daughter, Esther Fairfax, also a fitness teacher, was troubled. Esther has written a deeply candid portrait of her mother, and talks to Jenni about their love/hate relationship.
'My Improper Mother and Me', by Esther Fairfax, is published by Pomona
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 4Wed 21 Jul 2010 10:00 BBC Radio 4 FM only
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