kd lang, Science behind obesity, Teaching fertility in schools
Featuring kd lang; conflicting advice over the fat we eat; teaching fertility in schools; award-winning writer Margo Jefferson.
k.d. lang on her new creative collaboration with fellow singer-songwriters Neko Case and Laura Veirs, combining forces to form a new supergroup with an album called case/lang/veirs.
With conflicting advice over what we eat - particularly the role of fat in our diet - which message do you believe if you want to be healthy? Dietician Lucy Aphramor and Peymane Adab, Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health at Birmingham University, discuss the opposing claims.
After increasing calls for education about women's fertility to be taught in schools, we sit on a lesson at girls' school where the idea's being tested. What do the 15 year-old students make of it? Author and activist Joan Smith joins us to discuss whether this should be considered compulsory teaching in schools.
Award-winning writer and critic Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among the great and the good of Chicago's black elite. She shares her experience of growing up and being educated in a community that she calls "Negroland" where residents were sheltered by privilege and plenty. How did they shape society's attitude to race, sex and class in America?
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The Science of Fat
With conflicting advice over what we eat, what are the messages you should believe?
Duration: 08:48
Margo Jefferson
The author's new book, Negroland, discusses growing up in a middle-class Black family
Duration: 08:46
k.d. lang
The Canadian singer and songwriter on life, music and her comeback album
Duration: 10:47
Fertility Taught in Schools
Should it be? One school in London is leading the way
Duration: 13:17
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Role Contributor Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Anne Peacock Interviewed Guest k.d. lang Interviewed Guest Lucy Aphramor Interviewed Guest Adab Peymane Interviewed Guest Joan Smith Interviewed Guest Margo Jefferson Broadcast
- Tue 31 May 2016 10:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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