Michelle Mone to take over Woman’s Hour for a day
September 2, 2015 by admin
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- The entrepreneur will join likes of Kim Cattrall to guest edit the BBC show
- Mone will discuss dating for the over forties and psychology of weightloss
- Also plans to talk about barriers to employment and power of mentoring
- Cattrall will discuss choosing to be child free and being single in later life
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Millionaire bra tycoon Michelle Mone is taking over Woman’s Hour to chat about diets and middle aged dating.
The entrepreneur, 43, who is David Cameron’s latest business tsar, will join a host of other famous women such as Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall and Dame Jacqueline Wilson to guest edit the BBC Radio 4 programme.
Ms Mone, OBE, who is being made a life peer by David Cameron, plans to use her slot to discuss dating in the 21st Century for the over forties, ‘If you don’t want to engage in the digital world or join a dating agency, how do you do it?’
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Michelle Mone (right) will join a host of other famous women such as Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall (left) to guest edit the BBC Radio 4 programme
The Ultimo founder talks from experience. Her own marriage broke down after her head of design had an affair with her husband Michael.
The businesswoman’s dramatic weight loss is also up for discussion. In her autobiography, released earlier this year, she describes how she lost six stone after binge eating over her unhappy marriage saw her balloon from a size ten to 22.
Ms Mone plans to talk about the psychology of weightloss and how the mind, body and career are all linked.
She said: ‘I absolutely love Woman’s Hour and it is a real honour to be asked to be guest editor, we have four amazing topics to discuss and I can’t wait to get started.’
Brought up in Glasgow’s East End, Michelle herself left school at 15 — with no qualifications — to become a model. She started her lingerie firm in her 20s, was awarded an OBE in 2010, and sold an 80 per cent stake in the firm last year in a multi-million-pound deal.
The former model, founder of lingerie label Ultimo, is now leading a government review into entrepreneurship and small businesses under Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith,
FGM campaigner, Nimco Ali is on the following day to examine women-only spaces and the impact men have in female dominated areas while Children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson finishes the week on Friday 18 with a discussion on bookshops
She will travel the country looking into the barriers that disadvantaged young people face in setting up their own companies.
On her Woman’s Hour edit slot, on Thursday September 17, the glamour business tsar will also look at the barriers to employment and business opportunities in deprived areas, the power of mentoring and what it means to be a good employee.
She follows actress Kim Cattrall’s edition of the programme, on Monday September 14, which will focus on choosing a life without children, as well as explore the themes of ageing, being single later in life and loss.
FGM campaigner, Nimco Ali is on the following day to examine women-only spaces and the impact men have in female dominated areas. She will also look at fertility: ‘what do young women need to know?’
Ms Ali said: ‘Woman’s Hour is a national institution for women of all ages, and it’s a real privilege to be asked to guest edit a programme, not to mention an amazing opportunity to talk about some of the things that are important to me.
‘It’s a programme that breaks down barriers – they were talking about FGM when few others were, and now it’s a topic that comes up in dinner party conversations. I’m looking forward to exploring the current debates around the issue in my programme.’
Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek’s episode is on Wednesday 16, with a feature on the design of her Cope and Mitre and a visit to a L’Arche Community
Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek’s episode is on Wednesday 16, with a feature on the design of her Cope and Mitre and a visit to a L’Arche Community.
There will also be discussions on the themes of forgiveness and reconciliation, and supporting women offenders as they leave prison
Children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson finishes the week on Friday 18 with a discussion on bookshops and another on being glam over 70. The programme will also feature interviews with disabled actress Nickie Miles-Wildin and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
Woman’s Hour first handed over the reins for a takeover last year in April 2014, when JK Rowling, Doreen Lawrence, Kelly Holmes and Naomi Alderman were guest editors for a week.
Alice Feinstein, Woman’s Hour Editor says: ‘Last year we had a great response to our guest editors and I’m really pleased that we’ve been able to secure five more inspiring women who will each bring a fresh outlook and ideas to the Woman’s Hour team.
‘Their knowledge and expertise on a diverse range of subjects offers a starting point for discussions which we hope will resonate with our listeners.’
Jane Garvey (right) will present the programme Monday to Wednesday and Jenni Murray (left) will present on Thursday and Friday
The guest editors are the latest in a series of changes as the Radio 4 stalwart undergoes a 21st century revamp including a new late night edition – hosted by Lauren Laverne.
In its new guise as Late Night Woman’s Hour, publicised as something like an ‘evil twin’ of its daytime counterpart, the panel has already been tackling some very unusual conversation topics.
Alien sex and their ‘self-lubricating anuses’ is one in particular that raised more than a few eyebrows, while Laverne was forced to apologise after a contributor let slip a ‘f***’ live on air.
But after just a week on air the new, considerably darker, manifestation of Woman’s Hour has proved a big hit.
In its 11pm slot, the show manages to avoid censorship, while DJ and 6 Music presenter Laverne, 37, mixes in a healthy dose of mischief and, in the words of its new presenter, is ‘stitching eyebrows to hairnets’ across the country.
The guest slots will run at the normal time of 10am-11am on BBC Radio 4 with Jane Garvey presenting Monday to Wednesday and Jenni Murray on Thursday and Friday.
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Cecil, Caitlyn heat up Halloween costume wars early
September 1, 2015 by admin
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This image released by Costumeish shows a man holding a fake lion head while dressed as a dentist, a costume referring to the Minnesota dentist who who killed Cecil the lion. The Halloween wars over pop culture costumes heated up early this time around. Petitions and social media outrage are flying over a blood-spattered dentist’s smock paired with a Cecil-like lion head, along with a replica of Caitlyn Jenner’s joyful lingerie outfit for her coming out on the cover of Vanity Fair. (Costumeish via AP)
NEW YORK — Who gets to decide what grown people wear for Halloween?
Apparently everybody.
The Halloween wars focused on pop culture costumes have heated up early this year. Petitions and social media outrage are already flying over a blood-spattered dentist’s smock paired with a Cecil-like lion head, along with a replica of Caitlyn Jenner’s cream-colored corset set she wore for her joyful coming out on the cover of Vanity Fair.
But exactly how do the latest examples in the costume clashes for a holiday with a long, bawdy history differ from always off-base behavior like blackface, ala Julianne Hough, or Prince Harry’s turn as a non-Halloween Nazi?
Is the rule of “too soon” at play? Has the digital age spawned an overly politically correct genie with no immediate plans to be stuffed back in the bottle?
Richard Lachmann, a professor at the University of Albany who includes Halloween in his sociology of culture course, said costumes seem to be more provocative every year, with equally amped-up backlash. And there’s always a base of people who feel it’s an “irreligious pagan holiday to begin with and are ready to be upset,” he said.
Throw in a heavy dose of gore, loaded parody and ultra-sexy costumes, Lachmann added, and Halloween is now a free-for-all debate on decency and where the never-OK line belongs. But is there a line at all?
“It seems like there isn’t,” he said. “The point for adults is to be provocative, to do something that breaks the lines of what’s considered acceptable.”
The fashion and lifestyle site Refinery29 is one of many online voices decrying Jenner costumes and accessories, calling out one seller of a “Unisex Miss-ter Olympic Wig” that costs $14.99, in a recent update to a running attempt to take down the gear. Why?
Because as the writer, Liz Black, said in her post: “Every Halloween, there always seems to be a need for articles that explain why you shouldn’t dress up in a costume that mocks another marginalized culture.”
At least four online sellers are hawking Jenner stuff, including one of the largest retailers, Spirit Halloween, but opponents have seen little satisfaction as the companies declare it’s all in fun.
“At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based on celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes,” said a statement from Lisa Barr, Spirit’s senior director of marketing and creative. “Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and our exclusive Caitlyn-inspired costume reflects just that.”
Spirit’s version goes for $49.99. The wig? Sold separately at $16.99 a pop.
Anytimecostumes.com went with a cartoonish, beefy dude in a brown wig to show off its “Call me Caitlyn Unisex Adult Costume” with a sash declaring just that, lest you not realize who it’s supposed to be. It comes with a bustier and white shorty shorts for $74.99. Is it worth blackface-level anger?
Lachmann’s not convinced.
“With blackface there’s a link to the whole history of violence against African-Americans,” he said, echoing Black’s train of thought on what many in the trans community regularly face. “Certainly people can try to convince others that it’s not a good idea to wear a certain costume.”
That’s exactly what animal rights activist Doreen Harley in Indianapolis set out to do in a dustup with Johnathon Weeks, owner in Palm Springs, California, of Costumeish.com. He came up with the “Lion Killer Dentist” costume based on Walter Palmer, the Minnesota dentist who generated a world of wrath when he and his hunting party killed the beloved Cecil in Zimbabwe.
Weeks recently put the costume on sale for $59.99, upping the price to $99.99. Harley took to Facebook and Twitter to protest, and she started an online campaign to have Weeks pull the costume. She now has more than 50,000 signatures and a promise from Weeks to donate his profits from the dentist’s smock, lion head and bloody surgical gloves to a wildlife organization.
“When I saw the costume, that disturbed me that someone was trying to make a profit off of this incredibly disturbing story,” Harley said.
Does she consider Caitlyn Jenner costumes equally insensitive and disturbing?
“I have friends and family that are gay, transgender, lesbian. It does offend me. It’s almost like mocking someone. It is offensive to that community. I’m more passionate, I guess, toward animal rights. I have to pick and choose my battles and I’m choosing the Cecil the lion battle right now.”
She wouldn’t say whether she believes the Cecil costume reaches that never-OK line, such as blackface: “I think adults get to decide what they want to wear for Halloween. “This is the one that stood out for me.”
The lion-hunting dentist is just one of about 14,000 costumes Weeks sells at Costumeish and a larger site, Brandsonsale.com. So far he has sold 50 bloody dentist costumes. Weeks plans a reverse take on Cecil with a lion suit that comes with a severed human head, and possibly another costume with extra-large trousers and little kids sticking out one side for people looking to dress as Jared Fogle, the fallen Subway pitchman who faces charges of paying for sex with minors and possessing child pornography.
“We bring to market what people want,” Weeks said. “We all need to chill out. We’ve got the PC police everywhere. We have pregnant nun costumes nobody talks about. We have Jesus costumes nobody talks about. We live in a society that’s so sensitive to these things.”
But even Weeks has a line.
“I still won’t make twin tower costumes. … I get requests for that all the time,” he said. “The tragedy that happened with the TV reporters who were killed, that would be way off-limits. Anybody who wanted to dress up as them would be disgusting.”
By Leanne Italie
Associated Press