Budget 2021. Toxic Relationships. Theatrical wig maker Angela Cobbin.
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Budget 2021: What do you want to change? We hear from Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the Women’s Budget group, an independent not-for-profit organisation that monitors the impact of government policies on men and women When you look back over your past relationships do you see patterns? Whether it’s being drawn to bad boys, ending up with narcissists or falling for someone who needs looking after, it’s not unusual for us to end up in the same kind of toxic relationships again and again. So how do you break the pattern? Four women shared their very personal experiences with Woman’s Hour reporter Milly Chowles - today Nina's story.,
Angela Cobbin, wig designer and MBE has written a memoir. My Name Is Not Wigs takes readers through her beginnings as a hairdressing student in the early 60s to becoming a theatrical wig designer for countless plays, musicals, TV shows and films over five decades. She joins Chloe live in the studio - with a wig in hand - to talk all about it.
Plus as Princess Mako a member of the Japanese royal family marries her college sweetheart Kei Komuro we talk to Hanako Montgomer a Japan reporter for Vice News about why she'll be forced to forfeit her royal status. A Japanese law which doesn't apply to men.
Presenter Chloe Tilley Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:41.4 | Hello, I'm Chloe Tilly. Welcome to Woman's Air from BBC Radio. podcasts. from the Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle. |
| 0:52.9 | The leaks ahead of tomorrow's budget just keep coming. |
| 0:56.2 | Across the front pages and news websites, we learn that there will be a pay rise for 5 million |
| 1:01.2 | public sector workers, according to the telegraph 7 million if you believe |
| 1:05.0 | the daily mail and 8 million if you read the express. Is there going to be anything left for |
| 1:09.4 | the Chancellor to announce tomorrow when he stands up in the Commons? Well, we're going to look at the leaked giveaways |
| 1:14.4 | to see how it will impact family budgets. |
| 1:17.2 | But what I want to hear from you this morning |
| 1:18.6 | is, what do you want to see in the budget? |
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| 1:25.1 | message rate you can also email us through our website so what are the changes you |
| 1:29.8 | want to see that will make a difference to your |
| 1:35.0 | difference to your family. |
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