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The age of consent; can feminists work in fashion?; Nellie Bly

Can you be a feminist and work in the fashion industry? And is 16 the right age of consent? Jenni Murray discusses these issues and finds out more about journalist Nellie Bly.

Can you be a feminist and work in the fashion industry - blogger Angela Clarke and Ghost founder Tanya Sarne discuss. Peter Tatchell and Jules Hillier from Brook debate the age of consent. Bee Wilson tells us the history of the pestle and mortar and our series on being single looks at coming to terms with divorce and widowhood. And Jenni Murray finds out about the pioneering journalist and adventurer Nellie Bly.
Producer: Laura Northedge.

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58 minutes

Chapters

  • Should the Age of Consent be Lowered? Peter Tatchell and Jules Hillier discuss the issue.

    A government policy unit has suggested lowering the age of consent from 16 to 14.

    Duration: 08:25

  • Nelly Bly: Undercover journalist and the woman who broke the record for circumnavigating the globe a century ago.

    Jenni Murray speaks to author Matthew Goodman, and Bly’s biographer, Brooke Kroeger

    Duration: 08:45

  • Consider the Fork: Pestle and Mortar

    Catherine Carr in her kitchen using the most ancient of technologies: pestle and mortar

    Duration: 06:18

  • Can You be a Feminist and Work in Fashion?

    Anonymous blogger Angela Clarke and fashion label owner Tanya Sarne discuss

    Duration: 09:00

  • Single by Circumstance

    We look at being single by circumstance rather than by choice, with Barbara Bloomfield.

    Duration: 08:14

Can you be a feminist and work in fashion?

Angela Clarke hasÌęblogged anonymously about her experiences as a successful fashion agent.Ìę In her new memoir “Confessions of a Fashionista”, she claims that in a world where teenage models are routinely called “fat”, extremely high heels are part of the uniform and women sniff cake rather than eat it, feminism and the fashion industry just don’t mix.ÌęÌęAngela joins Jenni along with Tanya Sarne OBE, who founded and runs her fashionÌęlabel Handwritten, to discuss whether it’s possible to hold down a job in fashion and hang on to your feminist principles.

Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly was one of the first undercover women journalists who published a series of daring exposĂ©s in American newspapers at the turn of the twentieth century. Her adventures included a race to beat Jules Verne’s trip around the world. Matthew Goodman has written the story of this competition against another female journalist in his book Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World. He discusses Bly’s career with her biographer, Brooke Kroeger, who is Professor of Journalism at New York University.

Singles: Singles by circumstance

Single by circumstance rather than by choice - whether divorced, widowed or notÌęfindingÌęthe right person, do you actively work toÌęalter theÌęsituation orÌęsimply accept the single life? To discuss JenniÌęis joined by Barbara Bloomfield, author of the Relate Guide to Finding Love and Georgia Elms, Chair of the , whose husband died suddenly when she was 36 years old.

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Barbara Bloomfield is also the author of the Relate Guide to Love Couples Therapy: Dramas of Love and Sex" to be published in June 2013.

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Should the age of consent be lowered?

A government policy unit has suggested lowering the age of consent from 16 to 14. David Cameron has dismissed the suggestion and called it offensive but many young people do have sex before they are 16 and some argue that the law should be changed to reflect this. Jules Hillier, from the sexual advice charity and the Human Rights Campaigner debate the issues.

Consider the fork: pestle and mortar

In her new book, ‘Consider the Fork’ theÌęfood journalist Bee Wilson looks at the history of the world through the objects we use to prepare the food we eat.Ìę She invited Catherine Carr into her kitchen where she used the most ancient of technologies – the pestle and mortar – to make up a quick basil pesto.

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  • Thu 17 Jan 2013 10:00

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