Sugar Daddies

Sugar dating websites aim to connect attractive, young women and men, known as ‘sugar babies’, with older, wealthy men known as ‘sugar daddies’. The websites claim sugar babies can receive thousands of pounds in cash each month, as well as luxury gifts, and the right sugar daddy can even introduce them to a world of business opportunities. In this programme, presenter Tiffany Sweeney meets 18-year-old Valentina, who has seven sugar daddies who each give her a monthly cash allowance, and goes undercover to find out for herself about the reality of sugar dating and the potential risks involved.

Vogue travels across Europe to explore the world of Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies. Is sex always expected, or is it simply a form of companionship? Is Sugar dating anti-feminist and upholding patriarchy, or is it the ultimate act of empowerment for women who want to take control, and get exactly what they want from life?

Jean Françaix: a quintessentially French composer following in the tradition of Saint-Saëns, Poulenc and Satie; composer of some one-hundred-and-fifty works; and virtuoso pianist in his own right. The four works on this recording were composed between 1942 (the Divertissement—very much a 'distraction' during the Nazi Occupation of France) and 1977 (the Clarinet Quintet). All four share a high degree of compositional mastery, but this is always embedded within an air of grace, of profound charm, and of wit. It is perhaps this sense of humour which has so endeared Françaix's music to generations of musicians and music-lovers. But despite the facts that L'heure du berger was composed in honour of a Parisian restaurant who were to use it as 'background' music, that Françaix self-deprecatingly passed off A huit as a 'stop-gap to fill a programme' for the Vienna Octet, and that the Divertissement contains unashamedly blatant musical jokes, these compositions are unmistakably the work of an expert, a distinctively 'Gallic' artist.

A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts–-From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pants on Philip