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Last broadcast on Mon, 12 Sep 2011, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Joan Collins discusses masculinity, marriage and modern parenthood. Setting up in business in your 60s and beyond - what are the challenges? We hear from one entrepreneur who started her own venture at 64 and from a business mentor. Actress and director Janet Suzman discusses her role in a Radio 4 dramatisation of a novel, Life and Fate, which is set during the Battle of Stalingrad and charts the fate of a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. The children who support India's booming economy: despite continued efforts to eradicate child labour, as many as one in six of those under 14 could be working in factories and inside homes as domestic servants. Presented by Jane Garvey.
Joan Collins – The World According to Joan
The superstar of the small screen, Joan Collins is a living legend. In a career spanning over 50 years she has found success in acting, writing and producing - and is world-known for playing the venomous Alexis Carrington in the television soap opera Dynasty. Now Joan has written a new book. It’s her take on modern life. She joins Jane to talk about dressing fabulously, badly behaved children, and men: Can’t Live with ‘Em, Can’t Kill ‘Em.
The World According to Joan, by Joan Collins will be published by Constable on 1st September 2011 in hardback.
Women in Business: Starting up a business in later life
As the retirement age is pushed back for both men and women, many more people are looking to set up their own businesses in their 60s and above. But what are the challenges for women in their 60s and beyond becoming entrepreneurs? Christine Brown has experienced them first hand: at the age of 64, she started a wool shop in her local city of Ely. Dr Dianne Bown-Wilson, a visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, has studied later life working and been a mentor for small businesses.
Janet Suzman
Vasily Grossman’s little known work ‘Life and Fate’ has been hailed as a masterpiece and one of the most important Russian novels of the 20th century. Set during the Battle of Stalingrad, it charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Life and Fate is dramatized across Radio 4 next week, including the Woman’s Hour drama. The actress and director Janet Suzman performs a heart breaking monologue - the final letter a mother, about to be murdered by the Nazis, sends to her physicist son. She joins Jane to discuss.
Indian Child Labour
Despite India’s booming economy and continued efforts to eradicate child labour, the practice still continues. The government estimates that there are over 12 million child workers under the age of 14. Local NGOs put the figure much higher; some say that there could be as many as one in six children working in factories and inside homes as domestic servants to the growing middle classes. Nina Robinson reports from New Delhi.
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Joan Collins has written a new book - her take on modern life. She talks about dressing fabulously, badly behaved children, and men.
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Chapter 2
What are the challenges for women becoming entrepreneurs in their sixth decade and beyond? Jane talks to Christine Brown and Dr Dianne Bown-Wilson from Cranfield School of Management
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Chapter 3
The government estimates that there are over 12 million child workers under the age of 14. Nina Robinson went to New Delhi to talk to children who have been set to work.
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Chapter 4
Janet Suzman stars in next week's Woman's Hour drama Life and Fate. She talks to Jane about Vasily Grosman's book as well as her return to the stage in South Africa.
Broadcast
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Mon 12 Sep 201110:00
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