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Listener and academic Dr Barbara Brownie got in touch with the programme following a recent discussion about the portrayal of women in the music video for ÌýBlurred Lines by Robin Thicke and Pharell Williams. An explicit version of the video featured fully clothes men alongside women who are completely naked apart from nude coloured thongs. Ìý She believes that however dangerous it may be to cast women as sex-objects in music videos, it is more dangerous to send the message that women should be ashamed of their sexuality.ÌýShe says that inÌýthe right circumstances, women can be empowered by nudity and exhibitionism. ÌýÌýIs she right or are women objectified by nudityÌýno matter what theÌýcircumstances?.

Jane Garvey speaks to ÌýDr Brownie, a lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire alongside Frances Ryan,Ìýa New StatesmanÌýand GuardianÌýColumnist andÌýAlexandra Shevchenko fromÌýFemenÌýa feminist Ukrainian protest group.Ìý

A team of criminologists at Birmingham City University has published the first study into men who kill their families. The grim phenomenon that is known as ‘family annihilation’ is one of the least understood crimes according to Prof David Wilson who led the team. ÌýHe researched three decades worth of murders and found four different types of perpetrator. He also found that Sunday in August is the most likely time for a father to kill his children.

Actor Hayley Atwell is probably best known as Peggy Carter, the wartime British agent girlfriend of Captain America. Now appearing on the West End stage in , which looks at changes in British attitudes to sexuality over the past 60 years.ÌýHayley joins Jane in the Woman’s Hour studio.

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Lady Justice Arden sits on the Court of Appeal and is the UK's second most senior female judge. Twenty years ago she was the first woman to be appointed to the High Court’s Chancery Division, then the first woman to chair the Law Commission. In 2000 she became only the third woman to join the judicial ranks in the Court of Appeal. However women still represent just 16% of Appeal Court judges, with only one female out of twelve justices on the UK Supreme Court. Mary Arden is currently Head of International Judicial Relations for England and Wales and is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

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The pain of nursing and losing a sick baby inspired poet Ìýto write a collection which has earned her a place on the shortlist. The poems in Her Birth – which she calls her Ella poems - Ìýchart the Ìýillness and eventual loss of Ìýher daughter after 18 months of life following a rare heart problem. ÌýRebecca reads extracts from the book and Ìýtalks to Jane Garvey about how putting the collection together helped her cope with her loss and keep the memory of her alive for her new daughter Molly.Ìý