Jennifer Saunders, Fashion editor Justine Picardie on the real "Miss Dior"
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
From Ab Fab to Jam & Jerusalem, Jennifer Saunders has been gracing our TV screens for decades. She now returns to theatre as eccentric mystic Madame Arcati in a production of Noel Coward’s comedy Blithe Spirit. She discusses what attracted her to the role and reflects on her wide ranging comedy career.
When a cancer nurse Aimee Winfield posted on social media about how much she was looking forward to a break, it provoked a flurry of abusive messages. She talks to Emma about the impact it's had on her and why she worries about how this behaviour might affect other colleagues.
We hear about Catherine Dior, sister of fashion legend Christian Dior, was a French Resistance fighter during the Second World War and was the inspiration for the Miss Dior fragrance. She was also central to his decision to set up his own fashion house in the aftermath of the war which launched what known as the “New Look” – which created an undeniably feminine silhouette . Her story has received little attention, until now, with the publication of a new book: “Miss Dior – A story of courage and Couture” by the fashion editor Justine Picardie. She joins Emma Barnett to discuss Catherine’s life and her catalytic role in the history of one of the world’s greatest fashion houses.
Presenter Emma Barnett Producer Beverley Purcell
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
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| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 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 | Hello and welcome to today's programme where we're still riding high on another Emma's |
| 0:43.9 | glorious success at the US Open. Emma Radicano of course the first British woman in |
| 0:48.8 | 44 years to win a tennis grand slam singles title, the 18-old star who had just completed her A levels |
| 0:54.8 | before casually winning a major tournament like you do, tweeted yesterday with a picture of |
| 0:59.5 | the trophy with the words saying, we are taking her home as she prepared to go back to her |
| 1:04.7 | family home where her excited neighbors have put up banners and balloons in |
| 1:08.6 | their cul-de-sac in Bromley in Southeast London. On today's program we will pay tribute and tell the story and if you don't |
| 1:15.2 | know it what a story it is of the trailblazing original nine women of tennis who paved the way |
| 1:20.9 | for Emma Radicano, one of whom of course Billy Jean King, the American tennis legend, |
| 1:26.2 | who presented Emma with her trophy on Saturday in New York. |
| 1:30.1 | Now a lovely detail you may have spotted this yourself is that Emma spurred herself on through each round |
| 1:35.2 | with the promise of buying herself something she really wanted. |
| 1:38.4 | In Emma's case, some new headphones. |
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