Jessie & Lennie Ware, Nadine Shah, Naomi Wolf & The Beauty Myth 30 years on - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

Popstar turned podcaster Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie Ware discuss working together in their hit podcast Table Manners where they cook dinner for a different celebrity every week.
Should racing be doing more to celebrate the fact that it is one of the few sports where men and women compete in the same events? We speak to Jockey Lizzie Kelly - the first woman to win a Grade One race in Britain and now holder of two Grade Ones and two Cheltenham Festival winners. As Cheltenham starts again this year she joins us to discuss Just Jockeys, a campaign by Great British Racing.
It was International Women's Day yesterday and one of the events to mark the occasion took place at the Roundhouse in North London. Part of the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival it featured an all female line up. Nadine Shah began yesterday's performance. She spoke to reporter Georgie Rogers.
Thirty years ago saw the publication of The Beauty Myth. In it, the author, Naomi Wolf argued that the pressure to be beautiful was what she described as ‘a cultural conspiracy’ and ‘the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact What, we ask, has changed three decades on?

Presenter: Jenni Murray
Interviewed guest: Jessie Ware
Interviewed guest: Lennie Ware
Interviewed guest: Lizzie Kelly
Interviewed guest: Nadine Shah
Interviewed guest: Naomi Wolf
Reporter: Georgie Rogers
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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