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Woman's Hour

Marlene Dietrich; Sex lives in the Arab world; Prostitution - the political debate

Duration: 58 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Marlene Dietrich's life and legacy - as personal artefacts of the film icon go on sale in London, we talk to curator Megan Mulrooney. Plus sex lives in the Arab world - writer and academic Shereen El Feki on the disaffected wives, single mothers, sex workers, agony aunts, Koranic scholars, and infertility specialists she spoke to in the region, and what this tells us about Arab society. Plus prostitution: the politics - we debate the issues with Fiona MacTaggart MP from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Prostitution, who published their report on the laws on prostitution, and with Jean Urquhart MSP, who voted against the criminalisation of paying for sex in the Scottish parliament. And Clarissa Dickson Wright remembered: the life of the TV chef, and one half of culinary duo Two Fat Ladies - her friend, the Times food writer Lindsay Bareham, and the creator of Two Fat Ladies, TV producer Patricia Llewellyn, share their memories.

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Laura Northedge. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Megan Mulrooney
Interviewed Guest:
Shereen El Feki
Interviewed Guest:
Fiona Mactaggart
Interviewed Guest:
Jean Urquhart

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