Looking after your hair when you wear wigs, weaves and braids, Women in their 50s and long-term relationships

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Today Woman's Hour begins a series of interviews with sex and relationship columnist Suzi Godson talking to women in their fifties about the challenges this decade brings to marriage and partnerships. The first interview is with Mary, aged 57 who lives with her son aged 13 and partner Steve. Mary and Steve have been together for 15 years. In her fifties, Mary is faced with caring for Steve who suffered a debilitating stroke three years ago as well as bringing up a teenager. Following the Chancellor Philip Hammond's autumn financial statement, we talk to Mary-Ann Stephenson from the Women's Budget Group about the impact the financial statement will have on women's finances and lives by 2020. BBC London journalist Valley Fontaine has been on a personal journey to learn how to grow her natural Afro hair whilst wearing weaves, wigs and braids. She joins Jane Garvey along with Consultant Trichologist Shirley McDonald. A novel, Playing FTSE, takes place in an investment bank in the noughties The author, Penelope Jacobs, draws on her own extensive experience of working in the financial markets. She talks to Jane about sexual politics, workplace ethics and whether the culture has changed since the 2008 banking crisis. Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Lucinda Montefiore.