Weekend Woman's Hour: Red Lipstick, Domestic violence and terrorism, Gentleman Jack

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We explore the origins and enduring appeal of red lipstick with beauty journalist Rachel Felder and Florence Adepoju the founder of the lipstick brand MDMflow.

What do women voters think about the two new political parties: Change UK and the Brexit Party? We hear from Jane Green a Professor of Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford who is also co-director of the British Election Study and Deborah Mattinson the founding partner of research and strategy consultancy, Britain Thinks.

The journalist and author Joan Smith tells us about the links she’s found between domestic violence and terrorism.

Three women, who all have a parent who has transitioned tell us about their experiences.

Joanne Ramos on her debut novel, The Farm about a luxury retreat where women are paid handsomely to produce babies.

Sally Wainright tells us about her new BBC One Sunday night drama Gentleman Jack about the Victorian landowner Anne Lister. Anne Choma the author of The Real Anne Lister tells us about the coded diaries which revealed her lesbian relationships.

As part of a series of interviews on complex mental health we hear from Hannah who has been diagnosed with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder.

Presented by Jane Garvey Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed Edited by Jane Thurlow

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0:41.0	Hi, good afternoon and welcome to the weekend edition of the program.
0:44.6	This week we look at the coded diaries of Anne Lister, 19th century Yorkshire landowner and
0:50.7	industrialist.
0:52.2	She wrote in code about her love for other women
0:55.0	and she is the star of Gentlemen Jack,
0:57.5	the new Sunday Night Drama on BBC One.
1:00.0	Also today, the experiences of people whose parents transitioned.
1:04.6	Looking at photographs of when she was he is very different family dynamic and I guess I did look at my friends families and think well why didn't I have that why
1:16.1	didn't I have a conventional mom dad nuclear family?
1:19.8	Also this week Joan Smith on the link between terrorism and domestic violence
1:25.4	and we look at the power of red lipstick. It makes women feel strong, it makes them
1:31.2	feel more beautiful, it makes them feel put together.
1:34.0	One of the people I interviewed was Paloma Picasso, who had her own great red lipstick,
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