Iris Apfel, Risking it all for an affair, Living with early onset Alzheimers, Vocal fry
Fashion icon Iris Apfel, why some linguists believe 'vocal fry' undermines women, living with Alzheimers, and 'having it all' and risking it for an affair. Jenni Murray presents.
Ninety-three year old Iris Apfel is celebrated for her flamboyant style and her trademark giant glasses. She's the subject of a new documentary and she joins Jenni to discuss her impatience with banality, ageism in fashion and her love of accessories; why some people who "have it all" risk it all by being unfaithful, with journalist and novelist Rosie Millard and Susanna Abse from the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships. A year ago Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimers disease. Since then she's started a blog to "write all my thoughts before they're lost". She describes living with the disease. Vocal Fry, so called because it causes the voice to sound hoarse and dried out, is the latest trend in the speech patterns of young women. But is it undermining them and causing them to be taken less seriously? With author and journalist Naomi Wolf and Professor of World Literature at Oxford University Dr. Elleke Boehmer.
Presenter: Jenni Murray
Producer: Caroline Donne.
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Iris Apfel
Duration: 14:27
Adultery - Why are some people unfaithful?
Duration: 07:33
Living with Alzheimer鈥檚 Wendy Mitchell
Duration: 09:55
Vocal Fry + Speech patterns in Young Women
Duration: 09:33
Iris Apfel
Ninety-three year old Iris Apfel is celebrated for her flamboyant style and her trademark pair of giant glasses. She ran a very successful textile business with her husband until her retirement in the 1990s. It wasn鈥檛 until The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York put on a collection of her clothes, ten years ago, that she became a well-known public figure. She鈥檚 the subject of a new documentary , 鈥業ris鈥�, released tomorrow. She joins Jenni to discuss style, her impatience with banality and ageism in fashion.聽
Iris is released in cinemas on Friday 31st July. Directed by Albert MayslesAdultery - Why are some people unfaithful?
We talk about 鈥渉aving it all鈥�; the perfect family, house, job but what if it鈥檚 not enough? Why is it that for some people having it all includes being unfaithful? Psychoanalyst and chief executive of the Susanna Abse and , whose new novel is about the racy indiscretions of wealthy North London residents discuss what drives people to risk it all for an affair.
The Square by Rosie Millard is published by Legend Press in August.聽Living with Alzheimer鈥檚 Wendy Mitchell
This time last year Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer鈥檚. Since her diagnosis she鈥檚 started a so she can 鈥渨rite all my thoughts before they鈥檙e lost鈥� She talks to Jenni about the strategies she鈥檚 developed to help her live with 聽the condition and how her life has changed over the last twelve months.聽
Vocal Fry + Speech patterns in Young Women
鈥榁ocal Fry鈥� may not be new 鈥� think Mae West in the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong, but it鈥檚 the latest in a line of speech patterns popularised by celebrities such as the Kardashians, Scarlett Johansen, and Lena Dunham. Best described as a guttural lowering of the voice at the end of sentences, it鈥檚 a manner of speaking which some linguists believe undermines women, and causes them to be taken less seriously. Joining Jenni to discuss the feminist implications of 鈥榲ocal fry鈥� are the author and journalist Naomi Wolf, and Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, Dr Elleke Boehmer.聽
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Role Contributor Presenter Jenni Murray Interviewed Guest Iris Apfel Interviewed Guest Rosie Millard Interviewed Guest Susanna Abse Interviewed Guest Wendy Mitchell Interviewed Guest Naomi Wolf Interviewed Guest Elleke Boehmer Producer Caroline Donne Broadcast
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