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Woman's Hour: Indira Varma;  Is 60 is the new 40 and Having it All

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Indira Varman, Is 60 is the new 40? and Having it all

18/06/2014

Indira Varma;  Is 60 is the new 40 and Having it All

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Indira Varma;  Is 60 is the new 40 and Having it All

Game of Thrones' Indira Varma on her latest stage role. And is 60 the new 40?

Indira Varma on playing the Queen of the Goths in Titus Andronicus. The psychological and health efects of body image on pregnant women and new mums. Plus is 60 the new 40?

Indira Varma's career has spanned theatre, television and film. She's currently playing Tamara, the Queen of the Goths in Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, boasting the highest named character death count of all his plays. Jenni talks to her about her career to date being part of Game of Thrones and what it's like to act in Shakespeare's goriest work.

Sixty is the new forty. At least that's what Sal says, a character in Maeve Haran's new book, The Time of Their Lives. It's about four women in their early 60's who've been friends since university and their experience of growing older. How's it changed for this current generation of 60+? Is 60 the new 40?5

Penny Vincenzi's new novel, A Perfect Heritage features Bianca Bailey who's brought in to rescue a failing cosmetic house but struggles to get her work life balance right when her husband gets a new job. Penny will talk about the novel and whether it is possible or even desirable to "have it all" alongside Maeve who's explored similar themes in her work in the past.

Britain's poor white children are underachieving in schools and while the focus has recently been on boys what can be done to help the girls?

The psychotherapist Susie Orbach is co-author of 'Two for the Price of One' a report for Government that looks at how problems with body image can be unconsciously transmitted from mother to child. What needs to be done to prevent it happening?

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