original mini skirt hitched up hemlines to at least ten centimeters above the knee and became a symbol of a mass of painted women nine hundred sixty six she was awarded the order of the british empire for her work the mini skirt changed beauty ideals. the new mini was soon personified by a certain leslie hornby better known as twiggy with her bobbed hair and slender figure the model quickly became a style and cultural icon of the swinging sixty's the mini skirt was a polarizer as soon learned in her own shop from the beginning it was a. lot of young men to bring in my girlfriends and raving about everything and there were not a lot of sort of. on the window with their i. managed to do what few fashion designers had done before she changed society with a piece of fabric. and. i think it was all really down to mary quant she was an art student she didn't want to dress the way her mother did which you know up until then really had been kind of the way things were. during the one nine hundred fifty s. to peace on samples were in fashion quanta was creating for a new generation and had her

mini skirts. we kick off today show on a sour note with sourdough bread that is it's the oldest and most original form of leavened bread now making the dough is quite simple all you have to do is combine flour water in a glass or plastic container cover it with a breathable lid then let it sit in a warm place for at least twelve hours and while you have the ingredients for a good loaf of sourdough bread while in belgium one specialist has created a library of sourdough starter let's find out now why he has cultivated this unusual passion. these jars filled with sourdough starter aren't just sitting in any old fridge they're exhibits on display at the parata sourdough library in belgium and they're all alive four degrees celsius is just cool enough to keep the microbes in check for the collections head ecologists met these exhibits are more than just a number these are. this sound was my first one in noise we got in from san francisco in one thousand nine hundred nine francisco or didn't you know and from all of the starters here in the library. this is the one closest to my heart and tell us neve