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Woman's Hour: Summer hair trends; Police & sexual misconduct - Woman's Hour/Newsnight reveal 1,400 accused

Summer hair trends; Police & sexual misconduct - Woman's Hour/Newsnight reveal 1,400 accused

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Summer hair trends; Police & sexual misconduct - Woman's Hour/Newsnight reveal 1,400 accused

Summer hair trends; Police & sexual misconduct; Women of so-called "Islamic State"; HPV.

Are 70s haircuts back this summer? Woman's Hour/Newsnight FOI on the police and sexual misconduct;  the Sky documentary The Return: Life After ISIS; stigma around HPV diagnosis.

Summer’s here and despite the restrictions still in place on social gathering we’re still managing to meet up with friends and enjoy the odd night out. One aspect of that is of course looking your best and a big part of that is your hair, which has had to take a backseat in terms of grooming and maintenance over the last eighteen months of lockdowns. But, we are returning to salons and apparently trying lots of new and old styles, as well as getting more creative with colour. Hair stylist Nicky Clarke gives Emma Barnett  a summer make over and Camilla Kay from Glamour Magazine points out the trends including seventies flicks and “big hair” and  the “Shullet” – the modern take on the mullet.

Most of us would think of the police as a safe place to turn to in a time of need. But it's a belief that has been seriously questioned by a couple of incidents over the past year.  In a joint investigation with Newsnight we asked police forces in the UK, how many police had been accused of sexual misconduct.  Of course most police officers do their jobs with integrity and honesty  but campaigners say some of the results were worrying.  Our reporter Melanie Abbott has been looking at this.

Shamima Begum, Kimberly Polman and Hoda Muthana are just a few of the names who made headline news around the world after leaving their homes in the West to join the so called Islamic State. With rare access to the detention camp in Northern Syria, Alba Sotorra Clua's new film 'The Return: Life After ISIS' features some of the women who devoted their lives to the  group and who feel they should be given the chance to start over, back home in the West.

MP Jess Phillips is calling for there to be less shame around HPV – a sexually transmitted infection that she had in her twenties. Most sexually active people will contract HPV but won’t know they have it.  For 90% of people it clears up but for others it can be serious. Jess Phillips found out she had HPV when she was 22 and pregnant and is talking about this to raise awareness for Cervical Cancer Screening Awareness week. Dr Sarah Jarvis also joins Emma.


Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Harriet Wistrich
Interviewed Guest: Nicky Clarke
Interviewed Guest: Camilla Kay
Photographer: Daniel Thomas Smith from Glamour
Interviewed Guest: Alba Sotorra Clua
Interviewed Guest: Jess Phillips
Interviewed Guest: Dr Sarah Jarvis

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