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Presented by Jane Garvey. Are mixed football teams good for girls?

Presented by Jane Garvey. Are mixed football teams good for girls; and should hospitals continue to provide formula milk for newborn babies? And the life of Mrs Oscar Wilde.

Presented by Jane Garvey. As the Football Association approves mixed teams for 13 year olds, we discuss whether girls benefit from playing football with boys. Should hospitals continue to provide formula milk for newborn babies? 20 year old Bahraini student and poet Ayat al-Qarmezi has just been sentenced to a year in prison by a military court. She was arrested for reading poems at a pro-democracy rally in which she criticised the ruling family in Bahrain and asked for transparency in her country's governance. The life and times of a leading campaigner for women's rights, Constance Lloyd, wife of Oscar Wilde.

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