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Woman's Hour: 'Twinning' with your children: Fun or Embarrassing?

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'Twinning' with your children: Fun or Embarrassing?

17/09/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, 'Twinning' with your children: Fun or Embarrassing?

'Twinning', Author Adele Parks, Pensions and Divorce, Nora Twomey.

'Twinning' with your children, bestselling author Adele Parks, women potentially losing out on pensions when divorced and director and animator Nora Twomey.

Online blogger, Emi Ozmen frequently wears clothes that match her daughter, and her son; otherwise known as 'twinning'. Journalist, Claire Spreadbury, finds the practise embarrassing. They join Jane to discuss.

Adele Parks writes international bestselling novels. Her first novel, Playing Away, was published in 2000 and since then has produced 17 more novels. Her books have been translated in twenty six languages. She talks about her stellar career, where she gets her ideas from and her latest novel, 'I Invited Her In'.

Age UK has published a new report warning that many divorced women are potentially losing out on substantial sums from their husband's private pensions. They say a lot of the women don't realise they are entitled to this money and are calling for urgent reforms so that the pensions are split fairly. We hear from Michelle Cracknell, Chief Executive at The Pension Advisory Service and Christopher Brooks, an Age UK Senior Policy Manager.

The Oscar nominated film 'The Breadwinner' tells the powerful story of an 11-year-old girl named Parvana growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. When her father is wrongfully arrested, Parvana disguises herself as a boy in order to support her family. The director, Nora Twomey, joins Jane to discuss working in animation. 

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Kirsty Starkey.

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