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Joanna Trollope

31/01/2012

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Joanna Trollope

Why's our relationship to food so complicated? And Joanna Trollope on her latest book.

Joanna Trollope's latest book explores the pressures on army marriages. Does marrying a solider mean you also marry the Army? Plus Toyah Wilcox on the legacy of punk music.

Why is our relationship to food so complicated? Eating disorders, the 'obesity epidemic', malnutrition in the elderly, endless column inches devoted to the efficacy of this diet or that. Over the next four weeks we'll be looking at our often distorted relationship to food. Today - obesity in the young. With a fifth of children either overweight or obese when they start school what's being done to help combat the problem. 

Joanna Trollope talks to Jane Garvey about her latest book 'The Soldier's Wife' which explores the pressures on army marriages and asks whether marrying a soldier means you also marry the Army? 

And as we gear up for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year, we look back at the Silver Jubilee in 1977 and celebrate all things Punk with Toyah. Leather, piercings, spiky hair and torn clothing and confrontational music blew away any trace of the early 70s Flower Power era. What did punk mean for women and what's its legacy? 

Producer Lucinda Montefiore.

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