Woman's Hour - 29/12/2009

With Jane Garvey. Best known as Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker stars in a new romantic comedy, Did You Hear About the Morgans? with Hugh Grant. She talks to Jane about the film, the new twins in her life and why Carrie Bradshaw means so much to women. There's an increase in the number of women, including young mums, who are addicted to gambling. To combat this, a clinic in London is offering childcare to encourage sufferers to get treatment. The programme hears from a former addict receiving treatment at the Soho Clinic, and Jane talks to the clinic's director, Dr Henrietta Bowden Jones, and to Liz Karter from the charity Gamcare, which helps problem gamblers. In August 1920 Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues, which went on to sell a million copies in one year alone. Mamie Smith paved the way for the better-known women blues singers who followed her and as such is one of the most influential of the iconic black women singers collected on Document Records. In the last of the series on these iconic women, Judi Herman talks to the husband and wife team behind the record label to learn more about Mamie Smith. And what do you like to wear in bed - a sexy nighty, warm pyjamas or absolutely nothing? And how would you respond to the latest trend in nightwear - the slanket, a soft blanket with sleeves? Jane discusses the ins and outs of nightwear with Beatrice Behlen, Curator of Fashion and Decorative Arts at the Museum of London, and Kerry Potter, features director at Elle magazine.