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Woman's Hour: Weekend Woman's Hour: Hot Brown Honey, School exclusions, Bras

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Weekend Woman's Hour

28/07/2018

Weekend Woman's Hour: Hot Brown Honey, School exclusions, Bras

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Weekend Woman's Hour: Hot Brown Honey, School exclusions, Bras

Cabaret performance Hot Brown Honey, Excluded children, Bras.

Kim Busty Beatz Bowers and Lisa Fa'alafi of Hot Brown Honey, the effects of school exclusion on a 14-year-old boy, and why we can never find a bra that fits. Jane Garvey presents.

Kim Busty Beatz Bowers and Lisa Fa'alafi the co-creators of the cabaret performance Hot Brown Honey talk about how it's smashing stereotypes and promoting social activism.

There has been a sharp rise in the number of pupils being permanently excluded from state schools, but what impact does this action have on a child and parent. We hear from Anita who's 14 year old son was excluded from school and from Emma a teacher with a child with Special Educational Needs.

The novelist and internationally renowned literary scholar Professor Janet Todd talks about dealing with three cancer diagnoses and about making sense of her life and the uncertainty of death.

The journalist Emma Brockes discusses the panic and joy her solo path to motherhood has bought her and the changing face of the modern family.

How do the big shops decide what bra sizes to sell? And why is it so difficult for all women to find a bra that fits? Alice Holden of Attollo Lingerie and Georgia Larsen a former lingerie buyer for Topshop discuss.

We hear from Mariam Olayiwola and Ashleigh Brown members of the all female hula hooping troop Marawa's Majorettes.

And the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries talks about her new novel Shadows in Heaven.

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week.Presented by Jane Garvey
Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Jane Thurlow.

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