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Woman's Hour: Lorna Cooper, Sarah Champion, Jane Sanderson

24/01/2020

Lorna Cooper, Sarah Champion, Jane Sanderson

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Lorna Cooper, Sarah Champion, Jane Sanderson

The programme that offers a female perspective on the world

Lorna Cooper says she feeds her family of four on £20 a week. She's cut it down from £100.  She  offers her best tips for planning meals and stretching your grocery money.

Churches, mosques and gurdwaras should be safe places for teenagers. Yet due to a loophole in the law adults in faith settings can have sexual relationships with 16 and 17 years old who are under their supervision. This would be illegal if it happened in a school.  The MP Sarah Champion is leading a cross-party group of MPs looking into how teenagers can be better protected in faith settings and how this legal loophole can be closed.  

Why is the idea of connecting with past lovers so powerful? A new novel called Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson explores the power of music to bring soulmates back together. 

Radio 4 has a drama tomorrow which is about the famous novel, The Well of Loneliness.  The drama is set in 1928 and is about the obscenity trial that led to the banning of the book. Written by Radclyffe Hall, the novel's about a love affair between two women. Shelley Silas is the writer of the Radio 4 drama and joins Jane to talk all about it.

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