17/03/2011
Jenni Murray presents. Love letters: to be treasured or reluctantly thrown into the bin? And with the Budget approaching, we assess the likely impact on women and their families.
Jenni Murray presents. Love letters: to be treasured or reluctantly thrown into the trash? An early girlfriend of Pink Floyd band member Syd Barrett talks about hanging on to his letters and what they mean to her now. With less than a week to go to the Budget, we assess the likely impact on women and their families. We hear from the woman known as 'Kombat Kate' who puts Rory Kinnear's stage Hamlet through his paces in a sword fight. While fairy cakes were once the stuff of children's tea parties, increasingly cupcakes, whoopee pies and jellies are sold to grown women - a worrying infantilisation of food or a bit of fun?
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What will next week's Budget 2011 mean for women and families?
Jenni speaks to the 成人快手's Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders, Jill Kirby, former director of the Centre for Policy Studies and Anna Bird, acting director of Fawcett Society.
Duration: 10:25
Infantilisation of food
The cupcake 鈥� a small piece of confectionery heaven or an emblem of the increasing infantilisation of our foodstuffs?
Duration: 09:48
Kate Waters - Fight Director
Kombat Kate, as she鈥檚 known, is fight director on two current National Theatre productions in which the exciting fights are crucial to the drama.
Duration: 11:44
Love letters
Should love letters be treasured for ever or binned as you move on to new relationships?
Duration: 09:26
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- Thu 17 Mar 2011 10:00成人快手 Radio 4 FM
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