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Woman's Hour

Rose of Tralee; Eating disorders over 30; Why so many female vets?

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Austin Mitchell, MP on the 'feminisation' of politics with Isabel Hardman and Ivana Bartoletti.

The Rose of Tralee International Festival is one of Ireland most loved pageants but there are no bikinis in sight and the women are judge by personality and achievements. So, is it just an outmoded beauty parade or a harmless TV show that promotes the brightest young women from Ireland? Jane finds out from journalist Katy Harrington, a 'Rose' critic, and broadcaster Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin who won the competition in 2005.

Last year the actress Briony McRoberts took her own life, she was 56. Her husband, the Downton Abbey actor David Robb, has more recently attributed her death to her eating disorder, which she had battled with since she was a teenager. So why, even in the wake of cases like Briony's, do we still see eating disorders as a young women's disease? Jane is joined by two women over 40 with first hand experience and Dr Paul Robinson, consultant psychiatrist at the Eating Disorders Unit at St Ann's Hospital in London.

Almost 80 percent of veterinary students are women. So what does it take to be a young vet? A new BBC2 series Young Vets has followed 10 students of the Royal Veterinary College at work in veterinary practices, farms, and animal hospitals. We discuss the reality of the work and the qualities that it takes to make it as a female vet. Jane is joined by new vets Elli Berry and Judi Puddifoot - who qualified as a mature student - and Louise Allum, Head Veterinary Surgeon of the Royal Veterinary College's Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital in London.

And, Jane meets Isabelle Legeron, the only French female Master of Wine, for a cheeky glass of something fruity. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Austin Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Isabel Hardman
Interviewed Guest:
Ivana Bartoletti
Interviewed Guest:
Katy Harrington
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Robinson
Interviewed Guest:
Elli Berry
Interviewed Guest:
Judi Puddifoot
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Allum
Interviewed Guest:
Isabelle Legeron
Producer:
Erin Riley

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