Lorna Cooper, Sarah Champion, Jane Sanderson
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Lorna Cooper says she feeds her family of four on £20 a week. She's cut it down from £100. She offers her best tips for planning meals and stretching your grocery money.
Churches, mosques and gurdwaras should be safe places for teenagers. Yet due to a loophole in the law adults in faith settings can have sexual relationships with 16 and 17 years old who are under their supervision. This would be illegal if it happened in a school. The MP Sarah Champion is leading a cross-party group of MPs looking into how teenagers can be better protected in faith settings and how this legal loophole can be closed.
Why is the idea of connecting with past lovers so powerful? A new novel called Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson explores the power of music to bring soulmates back together.
Radio 4 has a drama tomorrow which is about the famous novel, The Well of Loneliness. The drama is set in 1928 and is about the obscenity trial that led to the banning of the book. Written by Radclyffe Hall, the novel's about a love affair between two women. Shelley Silas is the writer of the Radio 4 drama and joins Jane to talk all about it.
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| 0:45.0 | Ad podcast. It is currently Friday, January the 24th, 2020. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello it is good morning to you today on the program Lorna Cooper is here. She'll tell us how it is |
| 0:54.6 | perfectly possible to feed a family of four well on 20 quid a week. Lorna one of our |
| 1:00.4 | guests today will also talk to the author Jane Sanderson who's got a new |
| 1:04.2 | novel out called Mix Tape and if you're a fan of 80s music and indeed actually |
| 1:09.1 | generally just music and maybe you have a lost love this is the novel for you I really enjoyed it it's |
| 1:15.2 | called mixtape and Jane is with us on the program today as is the playwright |
| 1:19.1 | Shelley Silas because her play about the trial of Radcliffe Hall is on Radio 4 tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock and Radcliffe |
| 1:26.8 | Hall of course wrote the lesbian novel the Well of Loneliness but some people would say |
| 1:32.1 | not quite as simple as that, maybe not a |
| 1:34.0 | lesbian novel at all. I've just said that because I've caught Shelley's eye and she had a look |
| 1:38.1 | in her eye, it seemed to be about to contradict me, not going to let her, but we'll talk to |
| 1:42.0 | Shelley a little bit later. |
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