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Woman's Hour: Party Small Talk, Women and Slapstick, 2015 Fashion, Winning a Lotto Syndicate

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Party Small Talk, Women and Slapstick, 2015 Fashion, Winning a Lotto Syndicate

29/12/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Party Small Talk, Women and Slapstick, 2015 Fashion, Winning a Lotto Syndicate

How do you survive party chit-chat? Fashion trends for 2015, and women in slapstick.

How do you survive party chit-chat? We look at the fashion trends for 2015 (spoliers - get ready for pleather and gingham) and women in slapstick.

It’s coming up to New Year’s Eve. There will be parties and parties mean small talk. For some, this will be joy everlasting; for others, it is the social equivalent of scraping nails down a long blackboard. So is small talk an art we Brits are especially gifted at? We give you a survival guide to party chit-chat.

Why does slipping on a banana skin make people laugh?  Comedian Lucy Porter and Dr Louise Peacock talk about the stars of slapstick from Lucille Ball to Miranda and how the relationship between women and slapstick is far from simple. Thya ask; who will be the new women stars of slapstick?

Plus, we all dream of winning the lottery and spend hours spending the fictional money. The National Lottery is 20 years old and there have been more than 3,700 Lotto-made millionaires since it began on 19th November 1994. We talk to two ladies who won £1.4million each as part of a syndicate in Driffield, Yorkshire. Sue Brusby and Sue Harris join Jane to discuss what life has been like since they joined the Rich List.

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