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Petula Clark, Jo Wood

Petula Clark performs live in the Woman's Hour studio, and Jenni Murray talks to Jo Wood about life on tour with the Rolling Stones.

Petula Clark performs live in the Woman's Hour studio and Jenni Murray talks to Jo Wood about life on tour with the Rolling Stones. We hear about a project to improve women's health in the rural Indian state of Bihar. And is the current vogue for craft skills and cooking sending women back to the 50s or should we celebrate sewing and creativity in the kitchen ? Jessica Mann and Tessa Evelegh discuss.

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58 minutes

Chapters

  • Petula Clark

    Now in her 80s, the singer is back with a new album, Lost in You

    Duration: 12:34

  • Craft Mania

    Is today's trend for crafting anti-feminism?

    Duration: 07:50

  • Mobile Kunji

    Felicity Finch reports from India on a health initiative for women and children in Bihar

    Duration: 08:06

  • Jo Wood

    Jo Wood on her life as a businesswoman, campaigner and ex-wife of Ronnie Wood

    Duration: 09:30

  • Dementia Tests

    Professor Nick Fox on the purpose of the apparently odd questions used to assess dementia

    Duration: 03:55

Petula Clark

has been a star all her life. She started singing at seven, made her radio debut at nine, appeared at the Royal Albert Hall at 11, and has sold over 68 million records. Now in her 80s, she is back with a new album, Lost In You. Petula sings live in the studio.

Crafting

Crafting

Is the trend for sew-your-own and home-making crafts just another way of telling women to get back into the kitchen?

Guests: , author of The Fifties Mystique and Tessa Evelegh, author of The Great British Sewing Bee


Get the pattern for  created for us by by Belinda Boden, Jane Chadwick and Jess Quinton

Mobile Kunji

Mobile Kunji

The rural state of Bihar has some of the worst levels of literacy and maternal and infant mortality rates in India but a pioneering project is providing an innovative approach to improving health by using mobile phones.  

Organisations involved in the project include: and set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jo Wood

For 20 years Jo Wood worked as Ronnie’s PA on all the Rolling Stones’ tours. She talks about the highs and lows of their relationship, the drugs, the tours, the very public breakdown of her marriage and how she moved on to become a businesswoman.
Hey Jo, A Rock and Roll Fairytale, by Jo Wood, published by Harper Collins.

How heavy is a standard hammer?

This week, the actress about her mother’s dementia. "How heavy is a standard hammer?" is one of the questions that were put to her mother to help diagnose her dementia. To explain the reasons behind those questions Jenni is joined by , and scientific advisor to .

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  • Thu 28 Feb 2013 10:00

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