WHNews: Women and Homophobia in Russia

The organisation Human Rights Watch in Moscow has found that since federal laws were passed six months ago banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors, violence and abuse of homosexuals has increased dramatically. Journalist Liz MacKean has made a documentary on the subject Hunted and she and Tanya Cooper, Researcher for Human Rights Watch in Moscow, join Jane. Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Baroness Delyth Morgan, Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign join Jane to discuss raising awareness of breast cancer amongst older women. We broadcast an archive interview with Beth Chatto, one of the most influential gardeners in Britain plus curator Nicola Shulman talks about a new exhibition, Fashion and Gardens, at the Garden Museum in London. Authors Jojo Moyes and Samantha Ellis explore which couples in fiction would survive beyond the last page of a book and which are doomed to fail.
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