Gail Porter, Modest Fashion & Female Friendships
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Gail Porter, once one of the UK’s most sought after female TV presenters, talks about her life in the documentary Being Gail Porter. From developing alopecia to suffering severe mental health problems and ending up homeless.
As the Office for National Statistics releases new employment figures – we look at what sorts of jobs women are losing and what's being done to save them, with the Economist Vicky Pryce and the TUC’s Head of Economics Kate Bell.
As well-known high street fashion brands start selling clothes under the ‘Modest Fashion’ banner we find out what "modest fashion" really means from Reina Lewis from the London College of Fashion and the model Amina Begum Ali.
Would you sacrifice having children to save the planet? Jane takes your calls and examines the issue with Anna Hughes who's chosen to be child free for environmental reasons and Professor Sarah Harper Director of the Oxford Programme on Fertility Education and Environment.
Plus the playwright Miriam Battye and the actor Rebekah Murrell talk about their new play at the Royal Court in London which explores the highs and lows of female friendship.
And Lorna Cooper gives us her tips for feeding a family of four on a budget of just £20 a week.
Presented by: Jane Garvey Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Beverley Purcell
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:38.0 | This week we know that many more women than ever before are in work, but we also know that their employment can be |
| 0:44.9 | insecure and poorly paid. |
| 0:47.7 | What sort of jobs are women losing, particularly on the High Street, and what is being |
| 0:51.6 | done to try to save them. We hear your views on |
| 0:54.8 | whether you would sacrifice having children to save the planet and modest fashion is |
| 1:00.5 | having a moment but what is it? |
| 1:03.0 | People focus way too much of it being outer so what you wear. |
| 1:06.0 | So when I think about modesty I think about the way I speak, the way I act and how I carry myself |
| 1:11.0 | and how people perceive me as a Muslim woman. But then again I feel like |
| 1:14.7 | there's so many other people that could be modest. There could be people who just don't |
| 1:17.9 | agree with wearing revealing clothing. And we investigate the complexities of the female friendship. |
| 1:24.0 | I think that sometimes female friendships are shown as though they're soft and kind of fun and simple and kind of cute |
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