Woman's Hour - 02/12/2008

Presented by Jane Garvey. Acclaimed actress Tilda Swinton talks to Jane about her career, including her latest role in the film Julia, in which she plays an alcoholic who tries to extort money by using a young boy as bait. How important are slimming clubs in the quest to lose weight? Jane is joined by Zoe Hellman, company dietician at Weight Watchers, and Jane DeVille-Almond of the National Obesity Forum. The curator of an exhibition by Gerda Taro at The Barbican Centre, Kate Bush, and war photographer Jenny Matthews join Jane to talk about women's influence on war photography. Jane also talks to Pat Ward, National Programme Director of the NHS Foetal Anomaly Screening Programme, to unpick some of the complex statistics relating to Down's Syndrome birth rates. British men and women are the most promiscuous in the Western world, according to David Schmitt, a professor of psychology at Bradley University, Illinois. So what does this say about Britain? Jane talks to Kaye Wellings, Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Including drama: Snobs.