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Women and girls at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) must be better protected, so say the Government who have announced a number of new measures aimed at bringing an end to the practice in the UK.ÌýÌý

On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation Jenni speaks to Crime Prevention minister Lynne Featherstone, FGM survivor Nimco Ali and to the head teacher of Walworth Academy, Yvonne Powell, who last year held the Girl Summit to end FGM.

It's awards season so cue magazine and TV coverage of actresses parading expensive frocks. The #AskHerMore campaign is a feminist project encouraging journalists to engage with famous women in a way that is more than just "who are you wearing?" or "what's your diet plan?". Just ahead of the Bafta awards this Sunday, Jenni speaks to Edith Bowman, Â鶹Éç Three’s red carpet reporter, about the Ask Her More red carpet revolution.

Jenni talks to debut author Katharine Norbury about her book ‘The Fish Ladder’ – a story told through landscape of two searches: the first, to trace a river from the sea to its source, the second, to find her birth mother. Abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent, but subsequently raised by loving adoptive parents, Katharine grew up to be a wanderer of the outdoors. One summer, following a miscarriage, Katharine sets out with the idea of following a river from the sea to its source. What begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to the source of life itself, to find the woman who abandoned her at birth.ÌýÌý

The Fish Ladder, by Katharine Norbury, is published by Bloomsbury on February 12th 2015

Next week is the start of half term for many families with many using the week to set off on holiday with their children. But is ever ok to plan and book a child-free break and jet off without your children? Jenni speaks to journalist Siobhan McNally about the negative reaction she often gets when she tells people she takes a holiday every year without her young daughter and to broadcaster Beverley Turner who says she can’t face the shock and condemnation of her family and friends when suggesting of a child free holiday.Ìý

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