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Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour with me, Emma Barnett,

where we invite a group of women to share what's on their mind

and what's getting them going at the moment.

So who's around the table with me today?

I'm very pleased to introduce to Viv Groskop, writer and broadcaster,

Juno Dawson, the author and Kenya Hunt, deputy editor of Elle magazine.

Welcome to you all.

Viv, this is a topic I adore.

Women Speaking at Weddings.

Tell us why you're thinking about this at the moment and it pertains to your new book.

Yes, I've just written a book called How to Own the Room, Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking,

which is an examination of the speaker styles of lots of amazing women from Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey to Joan Rivers and Virginia Woolf.

Right.

Well, there's a little mention of Tris and A.

I examine all different speaker styles without judgment.

I think it's so important to take inspiration from wherever we can. And one of the questions

that's come up in one of the reviews is why don't more women speak at their weddings, which is not a

topic that I even thought about when I was writing the book. And I was

thinking when this came up, why didn't I think about that and why, why doesn't it bother me? And it

was mainly because I spoke at my wedding, which was... Shock horror. Yeah, nearly 20 years ago. And

when I come to think of it now, there were three men and three women who

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