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Last broadcast on Fri, 31 Dec 2010, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Presented by Jenni Murray. High heeled shoes for the party season - how high, and why? Poet Anneliese Emmans Dean performs a specially commissioned poem for Woman's Hour. Labyrinth creator, the Rev'd Di Williams, explains the difference between a labyrinth and a maze. Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development, discusses the UN's new agency for women with women's rights campaigner Lesley Abdela.
UN Women
In July this year, the UN General Assembly voted to create UN Women which will be the single most powerful agency to have responsibility for promoting the rights of women across the world. UN Women becomes operational on the first of January and is the result of years of negotiations between UN member states and women’s advocacy groups. It has a budget twice the size of the combined budgets of the four UN agencies it replaces but just how effective will it be? Joanne Sandler – the Deputy Executive Director of UNIFEM – talks about how UN Women will work and women’s rights campaigner Lesley Abdela and Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development take a look at the challenges facing this new organisation.
Is the sky the limit for sky high heels?
Tomorrow it’s New Year’s Eve and if you’re going out, the getting home could be something of a challenge especially if you’re in your party shoes. Will you choose something flat and practical - in case you have to walk home - or will you be wearing a killer heel? The high street shoe giant Kurt Geiger has announced that a shoe with a ‘sky’ heel of 9 inches is hitting their shops in the new year. Apparently, sales of their highest heeled shoes quadrupled in 2010 - and this was supposed to be the year of the midi-heel! We all know that high heeled shoes can be uncomfortable and are bad for our bunions, so why do we persist? Lorraine Jones, a podiatrist, is not a fan of high heels. Fashion journalist Helen Tither can’t get enough of them. They both join me tomorrow to answer the questions: How High? And Why?
Anneliese Emmans Dean
Anneliese Emmans Dean has been writing poetry for children and adults for as long as she can remember. Her work has won a number of prizes and for the last three years she’s been performing her poems nationwide in venues ranging from theatres and railway platforms to the UK’s largest planetarium. Her subjects are many and varied; she has written a whole host of poems about insects for her Buzzing show and last year, she was commissioned by the Today programme to write a poem for the appointment of the new poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. In the New Year, Annaliese takes her satirical poems on the road with her show Rhymes of the Times. She joins Jenni in the studio in Manchester to talk about her work and to perform a poem especially written for Woman’s Hour.
Labyrinth
Jenni Murray will be learning the difference between a labyrinth and a maze with labyrinth creator and trainer, the Rev’d Di Williams.
‘Labyrinths – Landscape of the Soul’ by Di Williams will be published in early 2011by Wild Goose Publications. ISBN: 978-1-84952-185-7
Chapters
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
Poet Anneliese Emmans Dean has written poems about insects for her Buzzing show. She talks about her work and perform a poem especially written for Woman’s Hour.
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Chapter 3
Kurt Geiger has announced a shoe with a 9’ heel! Is the sky the limit for high heels? Jenni talks to Lorraine Jones, a podiatrist and fashion journalist Helen Tither.
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Chapter 4
Broadcast
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Fri 31 Dec 201010:00
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