From Monday it becomes a crime to force someone into marriage, punishable by up to seven years in prison through a new law coming into effect in England and Wales. The legislation gives police the power to investigate a case where it's claimed that someone is being coerced into a marriage abroad. Jasvinder Sanghera of Karma Nirvana and lawyer Anne-Marie Hutchinson join Jane Garvey.
In 1967, the Theologian and Methodist Minister Frances Young gave birth to her son Arthur, who was born with a severe learning disability. She spent the next 45 years bringing him up through his childhood and adulthood, and now in her seventies has faced the difficult decision to place him in full-time professional care. In her new book, Arthur's Call, she describes how her experiences as mother to Arthur and his own severe disabilities, have led her to explore and often question her faith.
Last Thursday The Sun circulated a free copy of the newspaper to every household in the country. This free edition was missing a regular feature; a topless woman on page three. Does this suggest that The Sun is changing its policy on Page 3? Media analyst Claire Enders and Stephanie Davies-Arai from the No More Page 3 campaign join Jane.
In 1914 Mary Richardson was the suffragette who slashed the Rokeby Venus. She did it, she told Woman' Hour in 1957, to protest about the imprisonment and forced feeding of Mrs Pankhurst Mary Richardson's reminiscences now form part of the Woman's Hour collection, Jane is joined by author and suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford who has been looking at the life of Mary Richardson. Show less