Summer wardrobe essentials, Actor Jill Halfpenny, Author Cash Carraway
Woman's Hour
English - July 12, 2019 12:36 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB - ★★★★ - 251 ratingsNews Kids & Family Health & Fitness interview health politics news entrepreneurship business comedy culture productivity science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The dress historian Amber Butchart has been finding out about the history of some of the summer wardrobe staples we all buy or dig out every year - today, sunglasses.
Jill Halfpenny on her new role in the TV drama Dark Money. She plays Sam, the mother of up-and-coming young actor Isaac who accepts a pay-off to keep quiet about the abuse he suffered at the hands of a predatory Hollywood VIP.
Cash Carraway recounts her experience of temporary housing, refuges, violence, loneliness, forced self-employment, sex work and food banks in her memoir Skint Estate, about her life as a working-class woman and mother living in poverty in Britain.
And we have a round-up of the week’s news with Joy Lo Dico, columnist at the Evening Standard, Lara Prendergast, assistant editor of The Spectator, and writer and comedian Nuala McKeever.
Presenter Jane Garvey
Producer Beverley Purcell