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Dare you dress to be different? Reacting to cancer diagnosis

01/02/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Dare you dress to be different? Reacting to cancer diagnosis

Dare you dress to stand out from the crowd? With Jenni Murray.

Dare you dress to stand out from the crowd? A British Heart Foundation survey reveals that a third of women secretly wish they had the confidence to wear red. With Jenni Murray.

Dare you dress to stand out from the crowd? A survey by the British Heart Foundation reveals that a third of women secretly wish they had the confidence to wear red. So what's holding many of us back, from being sartorially more daring?

Being told you have cancer is probably one of the toughest things any of us have to hear, but while a couple might sit in front of the same oncologist and hear the same news, the way they understand and interpret the diagnosis can be very different. Next Monday is World Cancer Day and its theme this year is all about busting the myths ..We hear from Christine and her husband Ian who both interpreted the news of Christine's cancer in very different ways.

The new Super League season is kicking off, but only one top flight rugby league club has a woman on its board of directors. Award winning business woman and entrepreneur Kate Hardcastle joined the board of the Bradford Bulls in January. She's a lifelong fan of the club, watching them for the first time aged just two years old, and she's the first female director they've employed in the their history. 

Scandinavian women are praising the way that TV heroines like the fictional Danish prime minister in Borgen and the Swedish detective Saga Noren (as well as Sarah Lund of course) have put an end to the old blonde stereotype of the sexy, scantily dressed, up-for-anything Scandinavian woman.

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