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Woman's Hour: Trouser Suits, Family Secrets, Bishop Cherry Vann

20/02/2020

Trouser Suits, Family Secrets, Bishop Cherry Vann

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Trouser Suits, Family Secrets, Bishop Cherry Vann

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The trouser suit: powerful in its own right or just a copy-cat of a man's? The fashion historian, Lydia Edwards, has a new book out called How to Read a Suit. She discusses when they became fashionable for women and if we'll still be wearing them in the future.

We talk to Cherry Vann, the new Bishop of Monmouth. She's the first openly gay woman bishop in the UK, as well as the first bishop - male or female - to be in a civil partnership.  She officially became bishop this month but just beforehand, and quite unconnected to her appointment, the Church of England issued a statement suggesting sex belongs only in heterosexual marriage.  So how did that affect her and what message does she think it sends to Anglican LGBT members. 

Winter salad and a Pear and Rosemary Upside Down cake is on the menu in our latest Cook The Perfect ... 

And we've got Part Two of real life family secrets.  Who are Sarah's birth parents?

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