21/10/2010
Including celebrity photographer Mary McCartney and hypnotic gastric bands - do they reallly work? Plus how was Edgar Allan Poe influenced by the women in his life?
Presented by Jenni Murray. Mary McCartney has been taking celebrity photographs for almost twenty years. With a new book and two exhibitions of her work currently showing in London, she talks to Jenni about using her camera as a diary. Hypnotic gastric bands are a new phenomena, so can they work? The psychotherapist Susie Orbach and hypnotherapist Lou Palmer discuss the issues. Denise Mina's documentary 'Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death and Women' is on 大象传媒 4 tonight. So what influence did Poe's mother, wife and female companions have on his life? And the Spending Review, what impact will it have on women?
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Public Spending Review
Anna Bird, Head of Policy and Communications at the Fawcett Society and Andrew Haldenby, Director of the Think tank, Reform.
Duration: 10:19
Mary McCartney
Jenni is joined by the photographer Mary McCartney to talk about her latest book of work and exhibitions in London.
Duration: 09:26
Hypnotic Gastric Bands
Jenni is joined by Lou Palmer, hypnotherapist, Emma Eveleigh, a compnay director who lost four stone after hypnotherapy and Susie Orbach, psychotherapist.
Duration: 11:13
Edgar Allan Poe's Women
Denise Mina, crime writer and Professor Clive Bloom, author of 'Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1746 to the Present.'
Duration: 11:09
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- Thu 21 Oct 2010 10:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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