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Angela Clarke has听blogged anonymously about her experiences as a successful fashion agent.听 In her new memoir 鈥淐onfessions of a Fashionista鈥�, she claims that in a world where teenage models are routinely called 鈥渇at鈥�, extremely high heels are part of the uniform and women sniff cake rather than eat it, feminism and the fashion industry just don鈥檛 mix.听听Angela joins Jenni along with Tanya Sarne OBE, who founded and runs her fashion听label Handwritten, to discuss whether it鈥檚 possible to hold down a job in fashion and hang on to your feminist principles.

Nellie Bly was one of the first undercover women journalists who published a series of daring expos茅s in American newspapers at the turn of the twentieth century. Her adventures included a race to beat Jules Verne鈥檚 trip around the world. Matthew Goodman has written the story of this competition against another female journalist in his book Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World. He discusses Bly鈥檚 career with her biographer, Brooke Kroeger, who is Professor of Journalism at New York University.

Single by circumstance rather than by choice - whether divorced, widowed or not听finding听the right person, do you actively work to听alter the听situation or听simply accept the single life? To discuss Jenni听is joined by Barbara Bloomfield, author of the Relate Guide to Finding Love and Georgia Elms, Chair of the , whose husband died suddenly when she was 36 years old.

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Barbara Bloomfield is also the author of the Relate Guide to Love Couples Therapy: Dramas of Love and Sex" to be published in June 2013.

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A government policy unit has suggested lowering the age of consent from 16 to 14. David Cameron has dismissed the suggestion and called it offensive but many young people do have sex before they are 16 and some argue that the law should be changed to reflect this. Jules Hillier, from the sexual advice charity and the Human Rights Campaigner debate the issues.

In her new book, 鈥楥onsider the Fork鈥� the听food journalist Bee Wilson looks at the history of the world through the objects we use to prepare the food we eat.听 She invited Catherine Carr into her kitchen where she used the most ancient of technologies 鈥� the pestle and mortar 鈥� to make up a quick basil pesto.