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Woman's Hour: Keeping in touch with grandchildren, Rihanna's durag Vogue cover

Keeping in touch with grandchildren, Rihanna's durag Vogue cover

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Keeping in touch with grandchildren, Rihanna's durag Vogue cover

Maintaining family bonds while isolating. Black culture and high fashion. Phoebe Judge.

Keeping in touch with grandchildren while isolating. Durags, black culture, high fashion: the significance of Rihanna's Vogue cover. Phoebe Judge on her podcast, Criminal.

With most families self-isolating how should we explain the sudden absence of close family members to very young children? Listener Glynis is 73 and self-isolating alone. She used to see her 26 month old granddaughter regularly but has now completely disappeared from her life. Will her granddaughter be feeling abandoned and confused? Is she too young to really notice? Lynne Hipkin is a Clinical Psychologist who works with children and families and will be explaining how everyone can accommodate these recent changes to our lives.

Durags, black culture and high fashion. This week, Rihanna made history – and a statement – by wearing a durag for her photoshoot on the front cover of British Vogue. Is this a turning point for how the scarf is perceived in both popular culture and high fashion? Kenya Hunt is a Fashion Director at Grazia UK. Funmi Fetto is a Contributing Editor at British Vogue and the Beauty Director at the Observer Magazine.

Young workers and women have been hardest hit by the shutdown of large sectors of the economy, according to research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. 
We hear from the Deputy Director Robert Joyce. 

The American podcast Criminal has over 5.5 million downloads each month, and 133 episodes to date. Each episode tells a different real life story, ranging from Jolly Jane the notorious woman poisoner, to the tale behind the phrase Stockholm syndrome. Phoebe Judge, host and co-creator, joins Jane to talk podcasting, women criminals, and why people find true crime so fascinating?

Novelist Sarah Vaughan on her new book, Little Disasters - a psychological thriller about the impossibility of understanding what’s going on in the mind of another. It explores the judgement of mothers, the loneliness some women feel and the need to reach out even when someone appears to be coping just fine.

Presented by Jane Garvey
Produced by Jane Thurlow

Interviewed guest: Lynne Hipkin
Interviewed guest: Robert Joyce
Interviewed guest: Funmi Fetto
Interviewed guest: Kenya Hunt
Interviewed guest: Phoebe Judge
Interviewed guest: Sarah Vaughan

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