Weekend Woman's Hour: Fay Weldon, Self Harm, The Walton Sextuplets

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Novelist, screenwriter and essayist, Fay Weldon on her life and new collection of stories. Is Labour's pink battle bus patronising and sexist or a great way to get women talking about politics? Harriet Harman and Anne Perkins give their opinions. Yomi Adegoke and Emmanuelle Dirix on cultural appropriation: when does mainstream fashion and music labels taking inspiration from ethnic minority cultures become dangerous, offensive or patronising? Ten years ago Mary Hamilton cut herself deliberately for the last time after almost a decade of self injury. She explains how she managed to stop. Dementia is being portrayed in films, plays and fiction. But can it ever really capture the reality of the condition and help us deal with it? Janet and Graham Walton describe what life was like for them as parents of the world's only all female sextuplets. Singer-songwriter and gay activist Melissa Etheridge. Presented by Jane Garvey. Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Jane Thurlow.