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Radio 4,13 Jun 2014,58 mins

Women who shun contraception

Woman's Hour

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Why women would shun taking any form of contraception. Recent figures suggest that a third of women are not using any contraception at all and the majority of them are said to be in their thirties and forties, with degrees and mortgages. Considered lifestyle choice or irresponsible risk taking? We'll be speaking to Viv Albertine, formerly of The Slits, one of the most important female punk rock bands of the 1970's. The band split in 1981 and after 25 years Viv has started writing and performing new material. We'll be speaking to her about her new memoir. Beauty with a Purpose is the slogan for Miss World and the newly crowned Miss Cambridgeshire represents all that the new world of beauty pageants hopes to be. We'll be speaking to Miss Cambridgeshire, Carina Tyrrell, a medical student at Cambridge, ahead of the final of Miss England on Monday. You can't have missed that the World Cup started yesterday and it's not just men who will be sat glued to the television set - we'll hear from two women for whom football is a passion and way of life. And on Sunday it is Father's Day - for weeks now we've been targeted with adverts about how to have the perfect day and what to buy for the perfect dad. But what if dad is absent or it's a day your children are not looking forward to?

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