01/10/2010
With Jenni Murray. Cumberland artist Sheila Fell; Unwanted facial hair; do widowers often attract female attention?
With Jenni Murray. The life and work of Cumberland artist Sheila Fell, Jenni talks to her biographer Cate Haste.
Do young widowers find themselves the focus of female attention soon after losing a partner.. and do young widows experience a similar thing? A new campaign, We Can Face It, encourages women with excess facial hair to talk about it and seek treatment. And, should the Vetting and Barring Scheme - aimed at protecting children and vulnerable adults - be scrapped?
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Vetting and barring scheme
The vetting and barring scheme is under review and Civitas has called again for it to be scrapped. So should it go? Jan Cosgrove, of Fair Play for Children and Jennie Bristow of Civitas discuss.
Duration: 10:21
Cate Haste on Sheila Fell
The writer Cate Haste has just published a new biography of the Cumberland artist, Sheila Fell, who L S Lowry called the greatest landscape painter of her generation.
Duration: 08:41
The appeal of the widower
Do widowers hold a special appeal for some women? Jenni is joined by Benjamin Mee who lost his wife to cancer and Barbara Want who was married to Nick Clarke who died three years ago.
Duration: 10:33
Unwanted facial hair
New research shows less than half of sufferers feel able to talk to their doctor about it. Kim Robey, who suffers from excessive facial hair, and Charlotte Footman, St.Mary鈥檚 Hospital, London discuss.
Duration: 12:05
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- Fri 1 Oct 2010 10:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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