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Michel Roux Snr, Francesca Martinez, Sophie Kinsella, Jane Green

Featuring Michel Roux Sr cooking the perfect ratatouille, and advice on how to write popular fiction for women. Plus, stand-up comedian Francesca Martinez on not being normal.

Michel Roux Sr cooks the perfect ratatouille and discusses the essence of French cooking and what made him become a chef.

The stand up comedian, actress and disability rights campaigner Francesca Martinez says we all need to stand up to society's unrealistic and damaging expectations of being normal. Is she right?
As many young adults leave for university we ask what it's like for the single parents experiencing 'empty nest syndrome'.

Lad culture on UK university campuses is rife according to research carried out by the National union of Students . What's being done to combat it?

We begin our series taking a closer look at the reasons and process of reporting historic sex crimes. We start with Debbie's story. She was abused as a child but only reported it four years ago.

Plus what does it mean to 'dress normal'? Well that is what high street store Gap wants us to do. So what is Normcore and how easy is it to pull the look off?

And how do you become a successful writer of popular women's fiction, we ask two two best selling authors.

Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor: Beverley Purcell.

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58 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Sep 2014 16:00

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest Francesca Martinez
Interviewed Guest Dorit Young
Interviewed Guest Charlie Rice
Interviewed Guest Toni Pearce
Interviewed Guest Yvonne Traynor
Interviewed Guest Debbie Grafham
Interviewed Guest Lauren Cochrane
Interviewed Guest Josephine Collins
Interviewed Guest Sophie Kinsella
Interviewed Guest Jane Green
Interviewed Guest Michel Roux Sr
Producer Rabeka Nurmahomed
Editor Beverley Purcell

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  • Sat 27 Sep 2014 16:00

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