{"id":46259,"date":"2016-03-26T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46259"},"modified":"2016-03-26T23:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T23:17:18","slug":"jackie-kay-the-new-scots-makar-shaping-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46259","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Woman’s Hour<\/a>
\nBBC Radio 4<\/a>
\n2016-03-25<\/p>\n

The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay<\/a> has just been announced as the next Scots Makar<\/a> – Scotland’s<\/a> national poet. She tells Jenni<\/a> about the plans she has for her new role.<\/p>\n

Today a new exhibition examining how food, fashion and lifestyle have shaped women’s bodies and lives opens at York Castle Museum<\/a>. The curator Ali Bodley<\/a> and fashion historian Lucy Adlington<\/a> join Jenni to talk about 400 years of squeezing and binding. And, how the current vogue for big bottoms and padded underwear echoes the false rumps of the past.<\/p>\n

Mary Magdalene<\/a> – what do we know about the woman who was described as the constant companion of Jesus<\/a>, who wept at the foot of the Cross<\/a>, and who gave the first account of the empty tomb? What is it about her story that continues to fascinate and what evidence is there that she was a prostitute or even the wife of Jesus? Michael Haag<\/a> author of The Quest for Mary Magdalene<\/a><\/em> speaks to Jenni.<\/p>\n

Penrose Halson author of “Marriages are Made In Bond Street<\/a>” traces the history of one of Britain’s most successful marriage bureaux founded by two twenty-four year olds in the Spring of 1939. Penrose eventually became the proprietor and she tells Jenni about the remarkable cross-section of British society in the 1940’s who found partners through this tiny London<\/a> office.<\/p>\n

Listen to the episode here<\/a>. Download the episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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