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Grace Dent on Television: Harlots, Housewivs and Heroines - a 17th Century History for Girls, BBC4
Saturday 26 May 2012
David Starkey, your time is up. For restoring women to Restoration history, I love Dr Lucy
Mary Dejevsky: Legalise brothels – but let's get prostitutes off the streets
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Notebook
Trending: They don't make rock chicks like they did in the '90s
Monday 07 May 2012
Many of today's female singers simper about boys and clothes, says Gillian Orr. Thank goodness the original rebel-rousers are back
Wrath of the waterboys
Sunday 06 May 2012
A male synchronised swimming team from London is furious at the Olympic Games' ban on men
Simon Kelner: Life, like football, can be a game of two halves
Thursday 03 May 2012
Today's column is tackling some very big themes: rehabilitation, redemption, respect and Queen's Park Rangers. My mind turned to these issues when I saw the footballer Joey Barton on Newsnight.
Jack White, Kentish Town Forum, London
New Order, O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sunday 29 April 2012
No one loves a side project like Jack White. But now that he's gone solo, the blues-rock maestro can, finally, do what he does best: shred that guitar
Mary Ann Sieghart: The next government could be decided by dodgy postal votes
Monday 16 April 2012
Rachida (not her real name) was playing badminton in a Blackburn sports centre when I asked her if she'd talk to me about politics. I was making a Beyond Westminster programme for Radio 4 about how British Asian voters were deserting the three main parties. This young woman was initially very reluctant to contribute, and when she saw a middle-aged, male Labour councillor from her community trying to eavesdrop, she begged me to send him away.
Margaret Whitlam: Social campaigner and First Lady of Australia
Thursday 12 April 2012
When Margaret Whitlam heard in 1975 that her husband, Gough, had been dismissed as Australian prime minister, her response was characteristically blunt. "Why didn't you just tear it up?" she asked, referring to the document he had been handed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.
'I relate to the Suffragettes': Boat Race saboteur reveals his inspiration
Monday 09 April 2012
Trenton Oldfield tells Jerome Taylor why he halted Varsity clash
Harriet Walker: Roll up, roll up, the Samantha Brick saga shows that woman-baiting is back in fashion
Thursday 05 April 2012
Samantha Brick is a puppet for a male hegemony that derives its power from the myth that women don't like each other
Titanic, ITV, Sunday
Man Men, Sky Atlantic, Tuesday
World Series of Dating, BBC3, Monday
Sunday 01 April 2012
Drama based on tragic, thrilling history manages to be neither. It's hard not to cheer on the iceberg
The Expo Files, By Stieg Larsson
Friday 30 March 2012
It's a mystery as provocative as anything in The Millennium Trilogy: is there a fourth book by the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? How much more did Stieg Larsson write about the fascinating, sociopathic Lisbeth Salander before his prodigally unhealthy lifestyle ended his life at the age of 50?
Which Mad Man (or Woman) are you?
Sunday 25 March 2012
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