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Parent Bloggers; Britain's Youngest Barrister; French Feminists

Parents who blog about their children and why they do it. The French feminists lobbying President Francois Hollande for women to be treated as national heroes. With Jane Garvey.

Parents who blog about their children and why they do it. The French feminists who are lobbying President Hollande to allow more women into the Pantheon - the burial place for its national heroes. The 18 year old who has become Britain's youngest barrister. Eleanor Catton on her new novel, The Luminaries, long listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Presented by Jane Garvey.
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore.

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58 minutes

Chapters

  • Parent Bloggers - The Early Years

    鈥楶arent bloggers鈥� Tim Atkinson and Alice Harold discuss why they do it

    Duration: 09:47

  • Police Response To Domestic Violence

    Heather Harvey of the charity Eaves on the review of police response to domestic violence

    Duration: 07:36

  • French Women In The Pantheon

    Osez le Feminisme's Anne-C茅cile Mailfert & Bath University's Hanna Diamond on the campaign

    Duration: 08:19

  • Britain鈥檚 Youngest Barrister

    Gabrielle Turnquest - at 18, Britain鈥檚 youngest barrister - and her lawyer mother Patrice

    Duration: 08:48

  • Novelist Eleanor Catton

    Eleanor Catton on her new novel, The Luminaries - long listed for the Man Booker Prize

    Duration: 06:46

Parent Bloggers:The Early Years

According to a recent survey by Brit Mums, Britain鈥檚 biggest collective of parent bloggers, a record number of people in the UK are blogging about their children. 50% of so-called 鈥榤umbloggers鈥� have children aged 2 or under and about 5% of parenting blogs are now written by dads. Tim Atkinson, a stay-at-home Dad who writes the award-winning blog and Alice Harold, whose blog ,听 join Jane Garvey to discuss why they blog, whether they earn any money from it and how they cope with the competitive world of parent blogging.

Police Response To Domestic Violence

On Friday the Home Secretary Theresa May announced that听a review is to be carried out into the way police in England and Wales deal with cases of domestic violence.听This follows the murders of Clare Wood and Maria Stubbings who were both killed by former partners.听Neither woman was aware that their partners had a history of violence against women. About two women a week die from domestic violence in England and Wales. So what effect will this review have?听Heather Harvey, Research and Development Manager at the domestic violence charity Eaves joins Jane in the studio.听

The Campaign For More French Women In The Pantheon

Campaigners in France are calling for more women to be represented in the Pantheon. It is the final resting place for France鈥檚 most celebrated citizens such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Zola but the only woman to be included for her achievements is Marie Curie. Burial in the Pantheon is only allowed by a parliamentary act for "National Heroes" and the campaign group (Dare to be a Feminist) has taken to social media to lobby French President Francois Hollande to redress the balance. With 听Dr Hanna Diamond,听Reader in French History at the University of Bath and campaigner from Osez le Feminisme Anne-c茅cile Mailfert.

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Britain's Youngest Barrister

18 year old Gabrielle Turnquest is the youngest person to be called to the bar in 600 years. The average age is 27.听Though she is Britain鈥檚 youngest barrister she was born in the US, where she started her first degree at the age of 14. Graduating two years later on the day she also graduated from high school, she decided to study law in the UK. Jane speaks to听Gabrielle and her mother, Patrice,听a lawyer from the Bahamas.

Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton鈥檚 new novel, The Luminaries, has been long listed for the Man Booker Prize.听听 Set in 1860s during one of the New Zealand gold rushes in the hastily thrown up town of Hokitika, it tells a huge and complex story that opens with twelve local men meeting in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes.听A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life and an enormous sum of money has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk.听 Eleanor Catton鈥檚 first novel, The Rehearsal, about a sex scandal at a New Zealand high school, won a significant number of nominations and prizes.听In this, her second novel, she has shifted gear entirely to produce a doorstopper of a novel that reads like a Victorian sensation novel, transplanted to New Zealand. She joins Jane in the studio.

听The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton is published by Granta.

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest Eleanor Catton
Producer Lucinda Montefiore

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  • Mon 9 Sep 2013 10:00

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