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Woman's Hour: Pole dancing, Best place to be a woman, Sexual harassment

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Pole dancing, Best place to be a woman, Sexual harassment

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Pole dancing, Best place to be a woman, Sexual harassment

Pole dancing could become an Olympic sport but can it ever lose its sexual connotations?

Can pole dancing ever lose its sexual connotations? What is it like to live in towns marked by past tragedies? Sexual harassment in Westminster. Plus love in the Georgian era.

Pole dancing has been recognised by an international sporting body for the first time but can it ever lose its association with strip clubs and exotic dancing? Jane talks to Katie Coates, founder of the International Pole Sports Federation, and Kath Woodward, Professor of Sociology at the Open University in Milton Keynes.

As part of our Best Place to be a Woman series we discovered that Islington was the worst. We visited the North London borough a few weeks ago to meet the women living there. Today, we hear more from younger women facing certain challenges in their lives. Olivia Cope went to meet them at a youth club.

With more allegations of sexual harassment at Westminster, we'll be talking to co-leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas MP, ahead of a meeting with the Prime Minister on a new grievance procedure in parliament, and to Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen who had complained about the alleged conduct of a fellow MP. 

Marisa Anderson, a solo guitarist from Oregon, reinvents traditional music. She brings blues, jazz, gospel and country to meet electronic, minimalism, drone and classical. Marisa joins Jane to talk about her love of guitars and to play live in the studio.

A new exhibition, Basic Instincts, at London's Foundling Hospital Museum explores Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore. Jane talks to Dr Jaqueline Riding, curator, and Caro Howell, director.

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