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Woman's Hour: Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series

Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series

Winner of five gold Olympic medals Dame Laura Kenny on her decision to retire

Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, talks to Emma Barnett about her sporting career, motherhood and her decision to quit cycling.

Are we staying in more since the pandemic? We talk to Kate Nicholls OBE, CEO of UK Hospitality, and Ellen Scott, Acting Digital Content Director at Stylist Magazine. 

Our pornography series continues with 'Elaine', a woman in her late 60s who's worried about her husband's porn use. Followed by a discussion about the effect habitual porn use has on our brains with Dr Paula Hall, a Sexual & Relationship Psychotherapist, and Professor Valarie Voon, Neuropsychiatrist and Neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge.

Actor Imogen Poots is starring in a new film about the English heiress turned IRA bomber and art thief Rose Dugdale called Baltimore.  Imogen tells Emma about her approach to the role.  After today’s programme aired, the news broke that Rose Dugdale has died aged 83.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Manager: Andy Garner

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