Caroline Charles, Chantal Coady, Kate Nash
Fashion designer Caroline Charles meets Jenni Murray, Chantal Coady cooks the perfect chocolate truffle, life for women in North Korea, and the campaign to highlight diabulimia.
Caroline Charles discusses 50 years in fashion with Jenni Murray. Cook the Perfect chocolate truffle with Chantal Coady. Journalist Tania Branigan reports on life for women in North Korea. Diabulimia is an eating disorder where type 1 diabetics omit or manipulate their insulin in order to lose weight. Campaigners are trying to get it recognised as a specific medical condition. We hear from Jacqueline Allan and Tayler Hackett. And Kate Nash's rock and roll school for girls.
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Diabulimia
Why campaigners are trying to get official recognition for this eating disorder.
Duration: 08:55
Caroline Charles
The celebrated designer talks about her 50 years in the fashion industry
Duration: 06:28
Irish Abortion law change
New legislation will be introduced permitting abortion in limited circumstances
Duration: 02:51
Kate Nash's Rock School
Students from the Rock Shool perform an end of year gala.
Duration: 08:34
Is life changing for women in North Korea?
We hear what life is like for women in a traditionally male-dominated country.
Duration: 06:16
Cook The Perfect...Chocolate Truffles
Chocolatier Chantal Coady shares the secret of homemade chocolate truffles.
Duration: 10:02
Providing better care and treatment for Diabulimics - Diabetics with Eating Disorders
The charity has been campaigning to get diabulimia recognised as a specific medical condition by the UK government and medical professionals.听Diabulimia is an eating disorder where type 1 diabetics omit or manipulate their insulin in order to lose weight.听However abuse of insulin in this way has serious health implications and can lead to strokes, blindness, heart attacks, kidney disease and death.听DWED says most health professionals don鈥檛 how to treat diabulimics and so outcomes for these patients is very poor. Jacqueline Allan, Director of DWED tells Jenni why proper recognition of the disorder听is crucial for the treatment and care of diabulimics in the UK. Tayler Hackett was diabulimic from the age of 12. She talks about her experience living with, and overcoming the condition.
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Caroline Charles
She鈥檚 been described as 鈥渢he thinking woman鈥檚 designer鈥 and is celebrating five decades of dressing celebrities of both sexes including Mick Jagger, Emma Thompson and Diana, Princess of Wales. Jenni speaks to one of the world鈥檚 most respected designers, Caroline Charles about her book, 鈥50 Years in Fashion.鈥Kate Nash's Rock and Roll School for Girls
Brit award winning singer songwriter Kate Nash wants to encourage more women to write and perform their own music.听Two years ago she set up free Rock n Roll for Girls After School music clubs in 6 secondary schools, and this Christmas she invited some of her students to perform in front of an audience of nearly a thousand at an End of Year Gala at London鈥檚 Queen Elizabeth Hall. Tamsin Smith went to meet her backstage before the gig along with girls from Liverpool and Yeovil.
Is life changing for women in North Korea?
Finding out what life is like for ordinary people in North Korea is always difficult but we hear听from a journalist who鈥檚 been interviewing North Korean women about their changing economic and social status. We ask whether the failing economy is helping women gain more power in what has traditionally been a male dominated society.
Cook the Perfect 鈥 Classic Chocolate Truffle
In 1983, chocolate pioneer Chantal Coady put speciality chocolate onto the British High Street, with her first chocolate boutique on London鈥檚 Kings Road.听 Thirty years on, she鈥檚 internationally renowned for putting British chocolate on the global map.听 Now 80 of her favourite chocolate recipes have been published in a new book 鈥楻ococo: Mastering the Art of Chocolate鈥. Chantal joins Jenni Murray to share the secret of the in the latest in our series 鈥楥ook the Perfect鈥.
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- Wed 19 Dec 2012 10:00成人快手 Radio 4
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