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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Kate Winslet, Appearance, Carrie Brownstein

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Kate Winslet, Appearance, Carrie Brownstein

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Kate Winslet, Appearance, Carrie Brownstein

Kate Winslet. Appearance and why it matters. Amy Childs. Carrie Brownstein. Women in jazz.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including Kate Winslet on her films The Dresser and Steve Jobs. Plus a look at why appearance matters and the business of beauty.

Kate Winslet - on her new film The Dressmaker and why she wants to shield her children from social media. 
Appearance: a Woman's Hour Poll shows women spend on average 40 minutes a day on their appearance. Phillippa Diedrichs from the Centre for Appearance Research and Sali Hughes, beauty writer for the Guardian, discuss why appearance is so important. Reality TV star turned businesswoman Amy Childs and philosopher Mahlet Zimeta discuss how we use appearance to reflect how we want others to see us. 
The Business of Beauty why the British beauty industry is worth an estimated £9 billion. 
Three young men discuss how their anxieties over appearance have affected their lives. 
Explaining the Paris attacks to teenagers - with information streaming in from all directions what is the best way to talk to young people about terrorism?
Carrie Brownstein's feminist punk band Sleater Kinney grew out of the Washington State Riot Grrrl scene in the 1990's which put women to the fore of music. In a new memoir Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl she talks about her life in music.
Plus, women in jazz - why are they so much more likely to be singers than musicians? Pianist and composer Zoe Rahman and big band leader Issie Barratt share their insider views.

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