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04/11/2017

Weekend Woman's Hour: Susannah Constantine

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Susannah Constantine

The former fashion writer and presenter talks about her debut novel After The Snow.

Susannah Constantine discusses her debut novel, sex in long-term relationships, Renoir's Dancer: Suzanne Valadon, and why some children don't speak and how to support them.

Susannah Constantine discusses her move from fashion to fiction. After the Snow centres on 11 year old Esme Munroe and explores the impact her mother's depression has on her childhood.

We talk about sex in long term relationships with the therapist Esther Perel who gives advice to one listener who wishes for a more passionate sex life.

The author Catherine Hewitt on her new biography Renoir's Dancer: the Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon, a model and talented artist. 

New research has shown that interviews with older celebrity mothers are misleanding women by ignoring fertility problems and IVF. Rosie Bray has written a book about her IVF treatment and Karen tells us about her experience.

A new documentary about Winnie Mandela is being shown at the Film Africa Festival. The director Pascale Lamche talks about making the film and why Winnie Mandela became such a divisive figure in South Africa's political history.

We discuss selective mutism, which affects around one in 140 young children, mostly girls. Katherine Josling tells us about her daughter Rosa and Alison Wintgens the national advisor for selective mutism for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists gives advice.

Dr Delia Jarrett-Macauley on Una Marson the first female poet of significance to emerge in West Indies literature

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Produced by Rabeka Nurmahomed
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