Britney Spears, Jackie Collins. Young Engineers
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Britney Spears spoke publicly in a LA court yesterday about the conservatorship that she sees as controlling her life. Her father was granted control over her affairs after she went to hospital because of mental health concerns. Now she says her father controls her "100,000%" and told the judge she was traumatised and cried every day. "I just want my life back," she said. We talk to BBC Newsbeat reporter Lindsay Brown and the writer Pandora Sykes who presents a soon to be released, eight-part podcast series called Pieces of Britney.
We talk about Jackie Collins who was often dismissed as the Queen of Sleaze but she's one of the most successful female authors of all time. But who really was the woman behind the glamour? A new film is coming out about her called Lady Boss, so we talk to the film director Laurie Fairrie as well as Jackie's eldest daughter, Tracy Lerman.
This week we had International Women in Engineering Day, so today we celebrate some of our future scientists. Three of them have just won the GSK Young Engineer and Young Scientist of the Year awards. We speak to Kaede Sugano, Saashi Ghaie and Serena Jacob.
And weddings. We get the latest information about what you can and can't do if you're having a wedding soon, and we also speak to Marjorie Wallace who's just got married at 78.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:39.6 | Girls can do anything. |
| 0:41.5 | That was the motto of the late Jackie Collins, one of the most successful |
| 0:44.7 | authors of all time and yet despite her millions of fans she was often dismissed as the |
| 0:49.3 | Queen of Sleeze because she dared to write honestly about women, power and sex. |
| 0:54.8 | Now a new film about her life, Lady Boss, the Jackie Collins stories, seeks to set the record |
| 0:59.4 | straight. |
| 1:00.4 | Have a listen to the clip that the producers on earth from the TV program Kilroy back in 1993. |
| 1:06.0 | I bought a book yesterday and I read the first paragraph and I felt I am demeaning myself reading in. |
| 1:14.6 | What was it? |
| 1:15.7 | This is called Lovers and Gamblers. |
| 1:18.1 | I was that the only one of mine you've ever read? |
| 1:20.0 | Well there was one left in my house once and I'm afraid it was put out for the dust. |
| 1:25.2 | The thing that very much worries me about your books is the sex that your stronger women are |
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