Sophia Loren; Erin Pizzey; Cara Dillon
Includes Sophia Loren, Erin Pizzey on the first women's refuge, and Mary Roach on the digestive tract. Cara Dillon sings The Parting Glass. Presented by Jane Garvey.
Sophia Loren, Italy's most renowned and honoured actress, talks about her life and career spanning seven decades.
In 1971 Erin Pizzey was one of the women who set up the first refuge for women escaping domestic violence. She is joined by Jenny Smith who escaped a violent marriage with her two children in 1973. They talk about what life was like at the refuge some 40 years ago.
The Australian author Monica McInerney's latest book looks at what can go wrong when you send a truthful Christmas letter.
Keir Starmer the Director of Public Prosecutions until 2013 talks about historical sex abuse cases and changing people's assumptions about how victims should behave.
Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, the creators of the BAFTA and RTS award winning series 'Getting On', discuss their new series Puppy Love.
The popular science author Mary Roach talks about her new book 'Gulp' about the wonders of the digestive tract.
And Cara Dillon sings The Parting Glass.
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Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is an Academy Award-winning film star and Italy's most renowned and honoured actress. After a career spanning seven decades, and at the age of 80, she is now publishing her memoirs. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow : My Life describes her difficult and impoverished childhood in war-torn Naples through her rise to global fame and screen legend. Sophia joins Jenni to recount stories of her difficult father, her 56 year marriage to producer Carlo Ponti and her brief incarceration in an Italian prison.
First Refuge
Monica McInerney
is one of Australia鈥檚 top selling women鈥檚 fiction author.听听 Her latest book tells the story of Angela who for more than thirty years has sent friends and family around the world a cheery and chatty Christmas letter about her family in rural Australia titled Hello from the Gillespies.听 This year, Angela surprises herself 鈥� she tells the truth.听 Monica joins Jane in the studio to discuss Christmas letters and truth telling.
Keir Starmer
Continuing our series on historic abuse and assault, Jenni talks to Keir Starmer who was Director of Public Prosecutions until 2013.
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Puppy Love
The creators of the BAFTA and RTS award-winning 鈥楪etting On鈥�, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine join Jenni to discuss their new series 鈥楶uppy Love鈥�.
Mary Roach
is a popular science author who is only one of four women to have been shortlisted, for her book GULP, for the Winton Prize for Science Books, in the last 10 years. She describes herself as a 鈥榮cience-goober鈥� who is not usually 鈥榩rize-winning stock鈥� even though she has written four bestsellers. And she鈥檚 also achieved all this without any science degree behind her.
Cara Dillion
Folk singer,听 , grew up in a musical family in Dungiven, Northern Ireland. Immersed in the rich musical traditions of folk听she began singing from an early age, winning the All Ireland Traditional Singing competition by the time she was 14 years old.听 She has risen to become one of the finest interpreters of traditional Irish song anywhere in the world. Q Magazine听described her as 鈥淨uite possibly the world鈥檚 most beautiful female voice鈥︹��. Together with her husband and musical partner, Sam Lakeman she鈥檚 known for mixing both the traditional and contemporary in her song writing.听 Her solo albums have won many awards including Radio 2鈥檚 folk album of the year.听听 Cara is currently touring the UK and joins us to sing live from her latest album 鈥淎 Thousand Hearts鈥�.听听
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Jane Garvey |
| Producer | Rabeka Nurmahomed |
| Editor | Jane Thurlow |
| Interviewed Guest | Sophia Loren |
| Interviewed Guest | Erin Pizzey |
| Interviewed Guest | Jenny Smith |
| Interviewed Guest | Monica McInerney |
| Interviewed Guest | Keir Starmer |
| Interviewed Guest | Joanna Scanlan |
| Interviewed Guest | Vicki Pepperdine |
| Interviewed Guest | Mary Roach |
| Interviewed Guest | Cara Dillon |
Broadcast
- Sat 15 Nov 2014 16:00麻豆约拍 Radio 4
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