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Woman's Hour: Budget 2021. Toxic Relationships. Theatrical wig maker Angela Cobbin.

26/10/2021

Budget 2021. Toxic Relationships. Theatrical wig maker Angela Cobbin.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Budget 2021. Toxic Relationships. Theatrical wig maker Angela Cobbin.

Budget look ahead. Toxic Relationships. Theatrical  and TV wig designer Angela Cobbin.

A look ahead to this week's Budget. Breaking the pattern in relationships. And from hair dresser to theatrical wig designer, Angela Cobbin on her memoir 'My Name Is Not Wigs'.

Budget 2021: What do you want to change?   We hear from Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the Women’s Budget group, an independent not-for-profit organisation that monitors the impact of government policies on men and women 
   
When you look back over your past relationships do you see patterns? Whether it’s being drawn to bad boys, ending up with narcissists or falling for someone who needs looking after, it’s not unusual for us to end up in the same kind of toxic relationships again and again. So how do you break the pattern?
Four women shared their very personal experiences with Woman’s Hour reporter Milly Chowles - today Nina's story., 

Angela Cobbin, wig designer and MBE has written a memoir. My Name Is Not Wigs takes readers through her beginnings as a hairdressing student in the early 60s to becoming a theatrical wig designer for countless plays, musicals, TV shows and films over five decades. She joins Chloe live in the studio - with a wig in hand - to talk all about it.

Plus as Princess Mako a member of  the Japanese royal family marries her college sweetheart Kei Komuro  we talk to  Hanako Montgomer a Japan reporter for Vice News about why she'll be forced to forfeit her royal status. A Japanese law which doesn't apply to men. 

Presenter Chloe Tilley
Producer Beverley Purcell

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