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Woman's Hour: Amy Rosenthal's adaptation of Bar Mitzvah Boy, Nevada Brothels and bomb disposal operator Maj. Nicola Roberts

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Amy Rosenthal's adaptation of Bar Mitzvah Boy, Nevada Brothels and bomb disposal operator Maj. Nicola Roberts

11/11/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Amy Rosenthal's adaptation of Bar Mitzvah Boy, Nevada Brothels and bomb disposal operator Maj. Nicola Roberts

Amy Rosenthal's radio adaptation of Bar Mitzvah Boy.

With Jenni Murray. Amy Rosenthal on adapting her father's award-winning play Bar Mitzvah Boy for Radio 4, and is legalising prostitution the best way to make sex workers safer?

Amy Rosenthal talks about adapting her father's award winning television play, Bar Mitzvah Boy, for Radio 4. Is legalising prostitution the best way to make sex workers safer? Feminist Campaigner, Julie Bindel, has been to Nevada in the U.S, where brothels are legal, to see if there's anything to be learnt from their approach to prostitution. Major Nicola Roberts is one of only a handful of highly skilled women soldiers trained to find and disarm improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. But why did she choose to enter one of the most dangerous of professions? As a teenager Nicky Doherty's kept her chaotic home life secret from her friends and schoolmates. She believes there's a huge taboo about having parents who drink to excess, and is working to help dispel the stigma and shame many children feel about living with an alcoholic mother or father.

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