Rooney Mara as Mary Magdalene, Child sexual exploitation, Poems in tribute to women of Scotland

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Calls are being made for a new inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford, Shropshire following allegations that up to 1000 children could have been abused there over a period of forty years. We hear from the Conservative MP for Telford and a solicitor specialising in child abuse cases. Rooney Mara plays Mary Magdalene in a new film. What do we know about one of the most misunderstood figures in history? Lily Bailey cannot remember a time when she did not experience distressing intrusive thoughts. She has now written a memoir, Because We Are Bad, describing her experience of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Writer, poet actor Gerda Stevenson has published a second collection of poems, Quines: Poems in tribute to Women of Scotland. She talks about the extraordinary array of women in her book - singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and more.