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Austin Mitchell

Isabel Hardman

Ivana Bartoletti

Katy Harrington

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Elli Berry

Judi Puddifoot

Louise Allum

Isabelle Legeron

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Woman's Hour: Rose of Tralee; Eating disorders over 30; Why so many female vets?

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

19/08/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Rose of Tralee; Eating disorders over 30; Why so many female vets?

The Rose of Tralee - anachronistic or empowering? Jane Garvey and guests discuss.

The Rose of Tralee - anachronistic or empowering? Eating disorders in later life, why are so many veterinary students women, and Jane Garvey meets a French female Master of Wine.

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.

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