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Cook the Perfect... featuring Irish cookery writer Darina Allen; British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman on her new novel; and war widow Christina Schmid on finding love again.

Darina Allen will be Cooking the Perfect potato and caraway seed cakes from her recipe in her new Irish Traditional Cookery book. War widow Christina Schmid on finding love again nearly three years after her husband died defusing a Taliban bomb. Linda Kirkwood - the woman behind a women's drop in centre that helps victims of trauma - talks about the difficulties of social entrepreneurship. And Alexandra Shulman the editor of British Vogue on becoming a novelist.

Producer Jane Thurlow
Presenter Jenni Murray.

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Thu 19 Apr 2012 10:00
麻豆社 Radio 4

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  • Christina Schmid

    Christina Schmid explains how she has found love again after her husband was killed in combat, and the negative responses she has received from fellow military wives.

    Duration: 08:11

  • Social Enterprise

    Charity founder Linda Kirk and Cathy Pharaoh prof. of charity funding at the Cass Business School discuss the Big Society Capital and how easy it really is to get investment for new ventures.

    Duration: 08:12

  • Sanitary protection in Uganda

    A typical schoolgirl in East Africa might miss as many as 50 days of school a year because she can鈥檛 manage her periods. Anna Cavell reports on the new washable sanitary pad.

    Duration: 08:15

  • Darina Allen

    Darina Allen, founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School joins Jenni live in the studio and cooks the perfect potato cake whilst discussing her revised edition of her book, Irish Traditional Cooking.

    Duration: 08:26

  • Alexandra Shulman

    Alexandra Shulman has been the editor of British vogue since 1992 and her writing appears in many of our newspapers. She discusses her first fictional work, a novel 鈥淐an We Still Be Friends鈥�.

    Duration: 08:52

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  • Thu 19 Apr 2012 10:00
    麻豆社 Radio 4

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