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Why is publicly lusting over Poldark deemed as harmless fun whereas if men behaved similarly towards a woman they would be seen as sexist and inappropriate?听Martin Daubney is the former editor of 鈥榣ads mag鈥� Loaded, a magazine famed for featuring shots of scantily-clad women. He is now a sex educator and thinks that on the whole men are happy to be the object of female attention.听Journalist Tanya Gold says that double standards exist and women sexualising men in this way is just as de-humanising. 听If the chance to ogle men is the gift of feminism 鈥� she鈥檚 handing it back.

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Who didn鈥檛 want to be Clare Grogan? By day she was studying for her exams and at night she was the lead singer of Altered Images,touring with Echo & The Bunnymen, The Human League and U2. She went on to a successful acting career and is best known as the star of Gregory鈥檚 Girl. She was truly living the dream. In fact life was pretty perfect until she started trying for a baby and found she couldn鈥檛 conceive. She adopted a baby girl in 2005 and is now a patron of the 鈥楤ritish Association of Adoption and Fostering. Her series of children鈥檚 books 鈥淭he Adventures of Tallulah Gosh鈥� - about a normal girl who becomes a teenage pop star - have just been released digitally for the first time.听

On听World Autism Awareness Week听we hear from Ella Greenhill, author of a new play , a story of siblings where one has autism. Ella joins Jane and Carol Povey, from the , to discuss the effects of autism on family dynamics.

Plastic Figurines by Ella Carmen Greenhill opens in Liverpool on April 8th Touring until May 16th.听

In 1996 Aberash Bekele was a 14 year old听 school girl living with her family in Ethiopia鈥檚 鈥榃ild South鈥� when she was abducted by a gang of horsemen, beaten and taken to a hut where she was raped by a 28 year old farmer. In this remote part of Ethiopia, abduction into marriage is common practice. Aberash dared to fight back and managed to steal a gun and shoot her would- be husband as she tried to escape, but she was arrested and put on trial for murder. Her story was originally told by director and journalist in a 麻豆社2 documentary in 1999 called 听and it has now been made into a Hollywood film 鈥樷��, with Angelina Jolie as the executive producer. Jane Garvey is joined by Charlotte to talk about what has happened to Aberash, and how far attitudes to abduction marriage in Ethiopia have changed since the making of her film 16 years ago. 听

Difret is out in the UK on 3rd April and you can