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Women Bollywood make-up artists; Lying to your partner; Lucy Beaumont; 80 years of Levi

Sheila McClennon presents the female perspective, including women make-up artists in India, lying to your partner, comedian Lucy Beaumont and 80 years of Levi jeans for women.

After a long ban, women in India could soon work as Bollywood make-up artists in this male dominated environment. One woman who trained in the profession in Los Angeles and then returned to India is now challenging this rule in the supreme court.

Have you ever lied to your partner? According to new research a fifth of married people in the UK have a secret from their partner that could destroy their marriage. So what kind of lies do people tell and why?

Less than three years ago Lucy Beaumont was a relatively unknown name in the world of stand-up comedy. In 2011 she won Â鶹Éç Radio 2's New Comedy Award and this summer Lucy makes her debut at Edinburgh Festival with her new show. She joins us to discuss her career to date.

And it is 80 years since Levi launched jeans specifically for women. What makes jeans so enduring as a fashion garment?

Presenter: Sheila McClennon
Producer: Bernadette McConnell.

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Chapters

  • Women Bollywood Make-Up Artists

    Make-up artist Charu Khurana & the Â鶹Éç's Yogita Limaye on the female make-up artist ban

    Duration: 09:48

  • Lying To Your Partner

    Agony aunt Anna Raeburn & Susanna Abse of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships

    Duration: 11:56

  • Comedian Lucy Beaumont

    The winner of Radio 2’s New Comedy Award who is now making her Edinburgh Fringe debut

    Duration: 08:05

  • 80 Years Of Levi Jeans

    Lucy Reber of Stylist magazine, & Linda Watson, Fashion Reader at Northumbria University

    Duration: 08:15

Women Bollywood make-up artists

After long ban, women in India could soon work as Bollywood make-up artists.Ìý Ever since the first union for film industry employees was created 55 years ago, the rule has effectively kept women out of the profession. This has been challenged in the Indian supreme court by Charu Khurana, a make up artist. A decision looks set to be reached on Tuesday, August 26th.Ìý Sheila McClennon speaks to Charu and also to Yogita Limaye, the Â鶹Éç’s Mumbai correspondent.Ìý

Lying to your partner

A fifth of married people in the UK have a secret from their partner that could destroy their marriage, new research has revealed.ÌýAnd despite 42 per cent saying they don't think they will get caught out, many have suffered with sleepless nights, mood swings and constant guilt because of it.ÌýWhile the average secret has been kept for nearly ten years a quarter of respondents said they had been hiding the truth about something from their husband or wife for more than 25 years. The secrets kept by the 2,175 people involved in the study ranged from infidelity to money troubles to keeping pornography. It was commissioned by the law firm Slater & Gordon. Sheila McClennon speaks to agony aunt, Anna Raeburn and Susanna Abse, couples psychotherapist and chief executive of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships.

Lucy Beaumont

Less than three years ago was a relatively unknown name in

the world of stand-up comedy. In 2012 she won Â鶹Éç Radio 2’s New Comedy

Award, and since then her career has gone from strength to strength. This

summer Lucy makes her debut at Edinburgh Festival with her new show We

Can Twerk It Out, and she is currently developing her sitcom To Hull and Back

in which she co-stars with Maureen Lipman – the pilot of which was broadcast

on Â鶹Éç Radio 2 earlier this year. She joins Sheila to discuss her career to

date.

Lucy’s show We Can Twerk It Out is on at the Pleasance Courtyard in

Edinburgh until 24th August.Ìý

80 years of Levi

Levi Strauss & Co. invented the world’s first blue jeans in 1873. That’s a hard act to follow, but the company unveiled another revolutionary product in 1934: the first jeans aimed at women. So howÌýhas the wardrobe staple for many women changed over the years?Sheila McClennon speaks to Lucy Reber, the features editor of Stylist magazine and Linda Watson - Reader in Fashion at Northumbria University and author of Vogue: 20th Century Fashion.

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Presenter Sheila McClennon
Interviewed Guest Lucy Beaumont
Producer Bernadette McConnell

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  • Fri 15 Aug 2014 10:00
    Â鶹Éç Radio 4

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