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Woman's Hour: Bobbi Brown, Lucy St Louis, Andrew Billen, Mary Anne Sieghart, Catherine Morgan, Julie Flynn

Bobbi Brown, Lucy St Louis, Andrew Billen, Mary Anne Sieghart, Catherine Morgan, Julie Flynn

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Bobbi Brown, Lucy St Louis, Andrew Billen, Mary Anne Sieghart, Catherine Morgan, Julie Flynn

Bobbi Brown, Andrew Billen, Mary Anne Sieghart, Catherine Morgan and Julie Flynn.

Bobbi Brown, Lucy St Louise, Andrew Billen, Mary Anne Sieghart, Catherine Morgan and Julie Flynn.

The shift to mask wearing and homeworking saw many of us ditch our make-up during the pandemic. Perhaps not the best time to launch a new beauty business – but that’s what Bobbi Brown has done. She talks to Emma Barnett about her new beauty range and her career in the industry.

Phantom of the Opera was first performed 35 years ago in London’s West End. It’s the second longest-running musical here, the longest running show in Broadway history and has been performed worldwide and seen by more than an estimated 130 million people in 145 cities across 27 countries. It has just reopened and Lucy St Louis is playing the female lead – Christine Daee, the first Black woman to play this role. 

From George Eliot to JK Rowling, it is no secret that there is an assumption some men are put off by reading works written by women. But with figures showing men are four times as likely to pick up books written by other men than women, whereas women are just as likely to read books by men as they are by women, what is going wrong? And, does this affect other areas of writing? We talk to Andrew Billen a columnist with the Times, and to the author Mary Ann Sieghart .

And we kick off a new series about Women and Money with two financial experts Catherine Morgan, the host of the In Her Financial Shoes podcast  and Julie Flynn who's a financial adviser specialising in working with women who have lost their partner.  We’ll focus on financial secrets - Do you have money secrets that make you anxious? That you can’t face and make you want to dive under the duvet? If so, we want to hear from you.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Engineers: Jo Langton and Tim Heffer

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