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Gok Wan
Fashion guru and TV presenter, Gok Wan, talks to Jane about his autobiography Through Thick and Thin, including his experiences of being bullied and his battle with anorexia.
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EU Maternity Directive
The European Parliament is to vote on whether to extend fully paid maternity leave across the EU to 20 weeks. Jane talks to Labour MEP, Mary Honeyball & Rosie Dodds, National Childbirth Trust.
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Melinda Gates and Dr Sipho Moyo
Melinda Gates and Dr Sipho Moyo, Africa Director of One, talk to Jane about the launch of the Living Proof Campaign and their work.
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Mature Women Returning to Study
Implications of recommendations to reform the way Higher Education is funded in England. Discussion with Tom Sperlinger, Bristol Uni., and Prof. Miriam David, Institute of Education.
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Gok Wan
Fashionista Gok Wan claims that his own body issues have helped him to empathise with the women he styles. His family ran a Chinese restaurant, and by the time he was a teenager he weighed 21 stone. He reinvented himself by losing 10 stone, before becoming a makeup artist and a stylist. He has since taken the fashion and TV worlds by storm, presenting programmes including Channel 4’s How to Look Good Naked and Gok’s Fashion Fix. He joins Jane to talk about his childhood, the battles with his weight and anorexia, and his success as a fashion guru.
'Through Thick and Thin, My Autobiography', by Gok Wan, is published by Ebury Press -
Melinda Gates
As co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest charitable foundation in the world, Melinda Gates is the gatekeeper to an endowment of about £21 billion. With the ethos 'every life has equal value', and their enormous wealth, Melinda and her Microsoft billionaire husband aim to improve the lives of millions of the world’s poorest and sickest people. Today they launch the Living Proof Campaign, along with the advocacy organisation One. Melinda Gates and Dr Sipho Moyo, Africa Director of One, join Jane to talk about their work.
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Midlife studies
On Tuesday 12th the Browne Review recommended sweeping reform of the way Higher Education is funded in England. So what are the implications for the many mature women who return to education in later life? Jane talks to Tom Sperlinger, Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Bristol, and Professor Miriam David, Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.
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EU vote on maternity leave
The European Parliament will vote this week about whether or not to extend the period of fully paid maternity leave across the EU to 20 weeks, amidst criticism from the UK’s business community that it will lead to costs of £2.5 billion to the UK economy. But is it an inalienable right that women should demand, or are the pressures of the current economic downturn too great to implement it at this stage?
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BBC Radio 4Mon 18 Oct 2010 10:00 BBC Radio 4
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