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No more page 3?
An online petition urging the editor of the Sun to ‘Take the Bare Boobs out of the Sun’ has gathered more than 29,000 signatures. Lucy Holmes is the author of the petition and joins Jane.
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Where are all the female Lib Dem MPs in Westminster?
Baroness Sal Brinton, chair of the Liberal Democrats’ Diversity Engagement Group and Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society discuss.
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Cheeseboard
The internationally acclaimed cheese expert Juliet Harbutt tells Jane how to put together a perfectly balanced cheeseboard.
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Tori Amos
Singer songwriter Tori Amos talks to Jane about her new album and performs live in the studio.
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Feminine Forever - comedy drama looking at the menopause
The drama this week is set in 1973. Eileen is nearly 50 and wife of Trevor who says she has lost her ‘sparkle’. She is going through her menopause. Historian Louise Foxcroft joins Jane to discuss.
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Tori Amos
It is 20 years since singer songwriter Tori Amos released her first album, Little Earthquakes. Her latest, Gold Dust, is released in October to mark the anniversary, and sees her reimagine past songs to perform them for the first time with a classical orchestra. She talks to Jane about her career and performs Cloud On My Tongue in the studio.
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Where Are The Female Lib Dems In Parliament?
There are currently 57 Lib Dem MPs, but just seven of them are women. Eleven years ago, the Lib Dem leadership proposed all women shortlists. The party rejected the proposal which prompted Shirley Williams to say the party had written “the second longest suicide note in history”. So why are Liberal Democrats so apparently wedded to their male candidates? On the third day of the Lib Dems annual party conference, Baroness Sal Brinton, Chair of the Liberal Democrats’ Diversity Engagement Group, and Katie Ghose, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society join Jane to discuss why there are so few female Lib Dem MPs and what the party is proposing to do about it.
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Forever Feminine Drama - The Menopause
The drama this week is a comedy called ‘Feminine Forever’. It is set in 1973, and features Eileen who is nearly 50. She is the mother of 24 year old feminist, commune-living Judy and wife of Trevor, but has, as her husband puts it, lost her ‘sparkle’. She is going through her menopause. Putting the drama in its historical context, Jane is joined by historian Louise Foxcroft, and author of Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History Of The Modern Menopause.
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Cheeseboards
What do Stinking Bishop, Black Eyed Susan, and Lord of the Hundreds have in common? They are all names of British cheeses. This week is British Cheese Week, and to celebrate we have invited internationally acclaimed cheese expert Juliet Harbutt to show us how to put together a perfectly balanced cheeseboard.
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No More Page Three?
Following the furore over the topless photos of Kate Middleton, and the Royals’successful legal challenge to their publication,the debate about the naked breasts that can be viewed every day of the week in certain tabloid newspapers has been revived. Page 3 models posing just in bikini bottoms have been a stalwart of the Sun for the last 42 years. You can even now view these topless women in full 360 degree glory via an app. An online petition urging the editor to ‘take the bare boobs out of the Sun’ has gathered more than 29,000 signatures. Lucy Holmes is the author of the petition and joins Jane.
Take The Bare Boobs Out Of The Sun
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BBC Radio 4Mon 24 Sep 2012 10:00 BBC Radio 4
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