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Woman's Hour: Angel Blue: Amy Lawrence; Sex crimes; Northern Soul

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20/10/2014

Angel Blue: Amy Lawrence; Sex crimes; Northern Soul

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Angel Blue: Amy Lawrence; Sex crimes; Northern Soul

Jane Garvey asks, should sex crimes should be forgotten once a jail sentence is finished?

Jane Garvey asks if sex crimes should be forgotten once a prison sentence is finished. Plus soprano Angel Blue on playing Mimi in La Boheme and football journalist Amy Lawrence.

Jane Garvey considers the moral dilemma provoked by the case of the footballer, Ched Evans. Should convicted sex offenders, once released from prison, be able to return to their previous lives? American soprano Angel Blue talks about how she came to be an opera singer and what it's like to play Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme. Football journalist Amy Lawrence has been reporting on the game for the last twenty years. She talks about her new book, Invincible, which looks at what made Arsenal's team so special for their unbeaten season in 2003-4. Elaine Constantine's film, Northern Soul, portrays the intensity of the American inspired dance movement in the north of England in the late 1960s. Elaine and Northern soul dance instructor, Sharon Sullivan, talk about the film and why the movement still speaks to audiences today. Emily St.John Mandel is an American writer and the author of Station Eleven. The novel has been receiving rave reviews and has just been shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Awards. Emily kicks off a series in which we ask Woman's Hour guests what success means to them.

Presenter: Jane Garvey.

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