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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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45 minutes

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Tue 31 May 2016 10:00

Chapters

  • 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

Credits

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

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  • Tue 31 May 2016 10:00

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