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Woman's Hour

MP Gloria de Piero; the National Sperm Bank; Normcore

Duration: 58 minutes

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

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MP Gloria de Piero, Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities, live from the Labour Party Conference. The first National Sperm Bank - how will it address the UK sperm shortage? Laura Witjens, Chief Executive of the National Gamete Donation Trust explains. Plus, Japan has become the last industrialised country to ban possession of child pornography, but why are manga comics and animation exempt? Professor Sawa Omori of Tokyo's International Christian University, and Dr Sharon Kinsella of Manchester University discuss the law, Japan's attitude to children as sexual objects, and the cult of the "sexy schoolgirl". Plus 'normcore' - how dressing normally has become the height of fashion. Journalist Lauren Cochrane and Josephine Collins of the London College of Fashion dissect this latest fashion trend. And Scotland's first female MP - Katharine Murray, or the Red Duchess - elected to parliament in 1923.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Emma Wallace. Show less

Contributors

Producer:
Emma Wallace
Interviewed Guest:
Gloria De Piero
Interviewed Guest:
Laura Witjens
Interviewed Guest:
Sawa Omori
Interviewed Guest:
Sharon Kinsella
Interviewed Guest:
Lauren Cochrane
Interviewed Guest:
Josephine Collins
Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Quigley

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