Weekend Woman's Hour: Legacy books, Age-gap relationships, Life after an affair

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Listener week: where the content of the programmes has been suggested by Woman's Hour listeners. Anne Maguire and writer Julie Bindel talk about one of the best-selling lesbian novels of all time - An Emergence of Green by Katherine V Forrest. How do you go about rebuilding your relationship when your partner's had an affair? A listener we're calling Heather tells us her story and the relationship counsellor Anshu Rastogi gives some advice. Why do some people equate an interest in clothes and fashion with lack of seriousness? Dr Kate Strasdin, senior lecturer in 19th century dress at Falmouth University and Rachel Arthur a business journalist specialising in fashion and technology discuss. How do you best support a mother when her adult child dies? Jane Wessman's son Billy died when he was just 44 - she talks to Carolyn Brice from Compassionate Friends and Julia Samuel a grief psychotherapist. What are the challenges when you're in a relationship where one of you is much older than the other? Alice and Mike tell us about their 26 year age gap relationship and Dee Holmes from Relate offers advice. Over the past six months, the gender pay gap scandal has made the news and headlines but listener Jessica wanted to talk about the pay gap between white and BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) employees. Employment Lawyer Adele Edwin-Lamerton and ITN Journalist Natalie Morris join us. Listener, Louise Halling got in touch because she's frustrated to still be hearing the old adage 'A son is a son until he takes a wife. A daughter is a daughter all of her life'. Stephanie Calman joined Louise to discuss whether the cultural expectations around parenting sons is outdated. Presented by Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Jane Thurlow.