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Woman's Hour Power List: Farhana Yamin, Jo Whitfield CEO Co-op Food, Chila Kumari Burman

The woman who developed the idea of net-zero emissions, Farhana Yamin is number 2 on this year鈥檚 WH power list. Plus Jo Whitfield, CEO Co-op Food and artist Chila Kumari Burman.

The idea of reaching net-zero emissions is mentioned so often, it鈥檚 easy to forget that someone came up with it. That someone is Farhana Yamin 鈥 a world-class environmental lawyer, expert in international climate negotiations and number 2 on this year鈥檚 Woman鈥檚 Hour Power List. Jane Garvey talks to Farhana about her fascinating career.

She鈥檚 the first woman to run a leading British grocery retailer, we speak to Jo Whitfield, who is CEO of Co-Op Food. She joins Jane to talk about how food retailers have responded to the pandemic, the safety of her workers, her rise to the top and her women鈥檚 network Grocery Girls.

Chila Kumari Singh Burman has created a new installation for Tate Britain鈥檚 annual Winter Commission, unveiled in time for Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Chila is celebrated for her interdisciplinary practice which spans printmaking, painting, installation and film. In her work she draws on her Punjabi heritage, her Liverpudlian childhood 鈥 her father owned an ice cream van - and her feminist perspectives. She describes her work as 鈥渉igh art meeting popular culture鈥.

Actress Jane Seymour, who celebrates her seventieth next year, recently wrote that she refused to cut her trade mark long hair going against the received wisdom that you need to think about shorter styles as you age. Jane Garvey talks about the dos and don鈥檛s of hair care as you get older with Alyson Walsh a fashion journalist who writes for The Telegraph and runs her own blog site That鈥檚 Not My Age and also to the hair stylist Ashley Gaunt who works at Stephen Carey Hair in Mayfair, London.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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Chila Kumari Singh Burman transforms the front of Tate Britain with her installation 'remembering a brave new world'.

Chila Kumari Singh Burman transforms the front of Tate Britain with her installation 'remembering a brave new world'.

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  • Tue 17 Nov 2020 10:00

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