Woman's Hour - 21/07/2009

With Jane Garvey. The England women's cricket team has been described as 'one of the most successful English sports teams in history'. The players have brought home the Ashes for the third year in a row, and won the Twenty20 World Championship and the World Cup. But coverage of their achievements has been minimal and the players are hardly household names. Now Ahlya Fateh from Tatler Magazine has been asked to shape the team's image. She journalist Juliana Koranteng to discuss whether the sport can be marketed effectively to attract the number of fans it deserves. Brightly coloured beach huts are an essential part of the British seaside. They join ice creams, sandcastles and the rain as one of the most enduring features of the British seaside. Kathryn Ferry is an expert on beach hut history and she tells Jane why she has chosen to write a new book about this eccentric British passion. In the summer of 1848, three young artists formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and turned the art world on its head. Since then, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt have been a source of fascination for scholars and students alike. The women who inspired their most famous works have also become legends, particularly Elizabeth Siddal who was the model for Millais' haunting depiction of Ophelia. As a new series dramatising their professional and personal lives starts on BBC 2, Jane finds out more about these remarkable Victorians from Franny Moyle, author of Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites, and Jan Marsh, author of Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood.