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Woman's Hour: Camille Paglia on women in Hitchcock, Parveen Ahmed on Eid, and being blind on a bike.

Camille Paglia on women in Hitchcock, Parveen Ahmed on Eid, and being blind on a bike.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Camille Paglia on women in Hitchcock, Parveen Ahmed on Eid, and being blind on a bike.

Camille Paglia talks about the women in Hitchcock's films, Parveen Ahmed on celebrating Eid, and is there such a thing as fun for all the family? Presented by Jenni Murray.

Presented by Jenni Murray.

Controversial feminist Camille Paglia once said "if civilisation had been left to women, we'd all still be living in grass huts". This weekend, she brings her views to bear on the role of women in Hitchcock's films in a lecture at the BFI. She joins Jenni in advance to talk about some of her controversial views and to discuss Hitchcock's female characters.

In February, Russian punk feminist band - Pussy Riot - were arrested for singing an anti-Putin song in church. At 2pm today, a judge will sentence them for hooliganism. Many people outside Russia view Pussy Riot's protest as a non-crime in a secular country. Jenni takes a look at the growing worldwide campaign for justice for Pussy Riot.

This weekend Muslims around the world will be celebrating Eid - the festival that marks the end of Ramadan. Parveen Ahmed has five children between the ages of 24 and 6 and a large extended family. She also runs her own cookery school. She will be making the Eid-ul-Fitr meal for a very large number of people. She chats to Jenni about what the weekend holds in store her family.

Is there such a thing as "fun for all the family"? Not according to author and father-of-two Tim Lott who believes that each member of the family subtracts from the pleasure of the others. Rosie Millard on the other hand - a journalist and mother-of-four - has travelled the world with her children and lived to tell a happy tale. They discuss their differing views of 'family fun'.

Cathy Birchall is the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike. She joins Jenni to talk about her trip which included desolate and dangerous mountain roads, difficult border crossings and an [inadvertent] overnight stay in a Kosovan brothel.

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