Trouser Suits, Family Secrets, Bishop Cherry Vann
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The trouser suit: powerful in its own right or just a copy-cat of a man's? The fashion historian, Lydia Edwards, has a new book out called How to Read a Suit. She discusses when they became fashionable for women and if we'll still be wearing them in the future.
We talk to Cherry Vann, the new Bishop of Monmouth. She's the first openly gay woman bishop in the UK, as well as the first bishop - male or female - to be in a civil partnership. She officially became bishop this month but just beforehand, and quite unconnected to her appointment, the Church of England issued a statement suggesting sex belongs only in heterosexual marriage. So how did that affect her and what message does she think it sends to Anglican LGBT members.
Winter salad and a Pear and Rosemary Upside Down cake is on the menu in our latest Cook The Perfect ...
And we've got Part Two of real life family secrets. Who are Sarah's birth parents?
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| 0:00.0 | VBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:05.8 | Hello, Jenny Murray, welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Thursday, |
| 0:10.0 | the 20th of February. Good morning. |
| 0:13.3 | In today's programme, anything from a nettle to a lettuce, |
| 0:16.9 | Catherine Fipp's new recipe book is leaf. She'll cook the perfect winter salad |
| 0:22.4 | of red leaves, macroland orange and she'll bring a cake, |
| 0:26.2 | pear and rosemary upside down. How to read a suit? |
| 0:31.2 | When did they become fashionable for women? And what does a suit say about you? |
| 0:36.4 | And the second part of Sarah's family secret, what did she do |
| 0:40.8 | when she discovered at 44 that she'd been adopted? |
| 0:46.0 | Earlier this month, Archdeacon Cherry Van was enthroned at Newport Cathedral |
| 0:51.2 | in South Wales and became Bishop of Monmouth in the Church in Wales. |
| 0:56.8 | Her appointment coincided with the statement issued by the Church of England |
| 1:00.5 | suggesting sex should take place only within a heterosexual marriage, but |
| 1:04.8 | Bishop Van is the first openly gay female bishop |
| 1:08.6 | and the first to be in a civil partnership in the UK and she joins us from Cardiff. |
| 1:14.3 | Bishop Van, I think I can call you Cherry if that's okay. |
| 1:19.8 | For a long time, I know you tried to hide your sexuality, why? |
| 1:25.7 | Out of fear, like a lot of other gay and lesbian people, |
| 1:30.8 | it's not an easy place to be in the Church as a gay person |
| 1:35.9 | and fear means that it's just easier to keep silence rather than |
| 1:44.1 | rather than the risk of being rejected or losing your job |
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