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Woman's Hour: The Offbeat Sari exhibition, Iran latest, coldwater swimming and is AI pushing the boundaries of art?

The Offbeat Sari exhibition, Iran latest, coldwater swimming and is AI pushing the boundaries of art?

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The Offbeat Sari exhibition, Iran latest, coldwater swimming and is AI pushing the boundaries of art?

A new exhibition at the Design Museum in London  will explore how designers and craftspeople are reshaping the way saris are viewed in India today.

The Offbeat Sari exhibition will include 90 examples of innovative saris – including the first ever sari worn at the Met Gala and a foil jersey sari worn by Lady Gaga. Krupa Padhy talks to the exhibition's curator Priya Khanchandani.

BBC Journalist Faranak Amidi brings us the latest from Iran and we look at LOAB, the internet character created by artificial intelligence. Described as having the 'eerie face of a middle-aged woman with dead eyes, a vacant stare and a disturbing grimace', she's become an online viral phenomenon. Steph Swanson, the artist who created LOAB, explains her work and we hear from Tabitha Goldstaub, who chairs the UK’s Artificial Intelligence Council, and Mhairi Aitken, from the Alan Turing Institute. 

In February 2003, a woman called Lana Clarkson was found dead at the Hollywood mansion of the iconic music producer Phil Spector.  It was a global news sensation, with Spector insisting that the 40-year-old actor – whom he had only met that evening - had killed herself with his gun.   A new Sky documentary series called Spector re-examines what happened almost 20 years ago, and speaks to her family and friends for the first time.

And are you one of those people who loves jumping into the sea or a river at this time of year to feel the benefit of  cold water swimming? Well, if so, the British Medical Journal has said that swimmers should be told more about the risks of a lung condition known as SIPE - swimming-induced pulmonary oedema. Dr Ruth Williamson is a cold water swimmer and Acting Chief Medical Officer at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. She tells us how to spot SIPE and what to do about it, if you fear you have it. 

Presenter: Krupa Padhy
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Michael Millham

Photo Credit;  : Bikramjit Bose

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