The idea of reaching net-zero emissions is mentioned so often, it\u2019s easy to forget that someone came up with it. That someone is Farhana Yamin \u2013 a world-class environmental lawyer, expert in international climate negotiations and number 2 on this year\u2019s Woman\u2019s Hour Power List. Jane Garvey talks to Farhana about her fascinating career.
She\u2019s the first woman to run a leading British grocery retailer, we speak to Jo Whitfield, who is CEO of Co-Op Food. She joins Jane to talk about how food retailers have responded to the pandemic, the safety of her workers, her rise to the top and her women\u2019s network Grocery Girls.
Chila Kumari Singh Burman has created a new installation for Tate Britain\u2019s annual Winter Commission, unveiled in time for Diwali, the Festival of Lights. Chila is celebrated for her interdisciplinary practice which spans printmaking, painting, installation and film. In her work she draws on her Punjabi heritage, her Liverpudlian childhood \u2013 her father owned an ice cream van - and her feminist perspectives. She describes her work as \u201chigh art meeting popular culture\u201d.
Actress Jane Seymour, who celebrates her seventieth next year, recently wrote that she refused to cut her trade mark long hair going against the received wisdom that you need to think about shorter styles as you age. Jane Garvey talks about the dos and don\u2019ts of hair care as you get older with Alyson Walsh a fashion journalist who writes for The Telegraph and runs her own blog site That\u2019s Not My Age and also to the hair stylist Ashley Gaunt who works at Stephen Carey Hair in Mayfair, London.
Presenter: Jane Garvey\nProducer: Lucinda Montefiore