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Woman's Hour: Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Child sexual exploitation, Poems in tribute to women of Scotland

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13/03/2018

Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Child sexual exploitation, Poems in tribute to women of Scotland

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Child sexual exploitation, Poems in tribute to women of Scotland

Rooney Mara plays Mary Magdalene, Child sexual exploitation and Lily Bailey on OCD.

Rooney Mara plays Mary Magdalene in a new film; fears about the extent of child sexual exploitation in Telford; the author of a new memoir about obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Calls are being made for a new inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford, Shropshire following allegations that up to 1000 children could have been abused there over a period of forty years. We hear from the Conservative MP for Telford and a solicitor specialising in child abuse cases.

Rooney Mara plays Mary Magdalene in a new film. What do we know about one of the most misunderstood figures in history?

Lily Bailey cannot remember a time when she did not experience distressing intrusive thoughts. She has now written a memoir, Because We Are Bad, describing her experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Writer, poet actor Gerda Stevenson has published a second collection of poems, Quines: Poems in tribute to Women of Scotland. She talks about the extraordinary array of women in her book - singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and more.

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