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Louise Bourgeois, Neighbours, Ad Women

Music from award-winning blues singer Rita Chiarelli. With Mad Men now back on our screens, what was life like for women in Britain's advertising world? Presented by Jane Garvey.

Award-winning blues singer Rita Chiarelli performs and talks about her collaborative work with inmates of a US state penitentiary. Mad Men is back on our screens but what was life like for women working in Britain's advertising world? We look back 40 years to an earlier ad age. Artist Louise Bourgeois created a gigantic sculpture of a spider for Tate Modern in 1999. Two years after her death we visit a new exhibition of her work in London. People next door: how have neighbours and our relationships with them changed across the ages? We are joined by historian Emily Cockayne.
Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Catherine Carr.

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Mon 2 Apr 2012 10:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Chapters

  • Women in Advertising

    Jane is joined by Carol Reay, a named partner running an agency in the 1980s and Rosie Arnold, the deputy executive creative director for BBH.

    Duration: 11:39

  • Rita Chiarelli

    Jane hears about film 'Music from the Big House' and Rita performs one of the songs she played with the inmates.

    Duration: 11:17

  • History of Neighbours

    Jane talks to historian Emily Cockayne about her new book 'Cheek by Jowl, A History of Neighbours'.

    Duration: 07:28

  • Louise Bourgeois at the Freud Museum

    We hear about an exhibition based on the artist's reactions to her psychoanalytic treatment.

    Duration: 10:33

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  • Mon 2 Apr 2012 10:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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