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Woman's Hour: Rosie Boycott on reinvention; Whither the fringe?

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Rosie Boycott on reinvention; Whither the fringe?

08/09/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Rosie Boycott on reinvention; Whither the fringe?

Nadia Manzoor, a short history of the fringe, and reinventing yourself with Rosie Boycott.

Stand-up comedian Nadia Manzoor, Rosie Boycott champions reinventing yourself, a short history of the fringe and the forgotten history of women in St Ives.

Nadia Manzoor likes to take a light-hearted view of what it is to be young, Muslim, and female in the UK today - from her unique perspective as a British-Pakistani stand-up comedian. . Nadia Manzoor joins Jane Garvey to talk about her life as a young British-Pakistani woman, and how her life experiences proved rich material for her show.

Sir Tony Hawkhead from Action For Children on why siblings are so often separated when they go into care.

As life expectancy increases, jobs for life become a thing of the past and pensions fail to provide enough to live on. many more of us are re-inventing ourselves. So how easy is to take up a different career or juggle different projects? What qualities do you need? How useful is the internet? Rosie Boycott, currently the Mayor of London's Food Advisor and Sophia Stuart, currently a digital strategist, have both reinvented themselves. They join Jane in the studio.

Last week the first ever Community History Prize for Women's History was awarded by the Women's History Network. The prize celebrates history projects which are by, about or for women in a local or community setting. The winner is the Women in Industry - St Ives Archives which looked at the often forgotten industrial heritage of clothes and textile manufacture. Jane is joined by Professor Maggie Andrews and Maggie Davies of the St Ives Project.

Claudia Winkleman has decided to give her signature fringe the chop in order to present the new Strictly Come Dancing series. Celebrity hairdresser Denise McAdam and hair historian Caroline Cox talk to Jane about the highlights and lowbrows of the fringe.

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Producer: Erin Riley.

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