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Clare Gerada is a GP Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a position she holds until November. A vocal defender of the NHS, she sprang to prominence as a leading voice in the opposition to the coalition government鈥檚 reorganisation of the NHS in England. 听Early this year she was named as one of Woman鈥檚 Hour鈥檚 100 most powerful women in the UK. 听She joins Jane to talk about the role, her medical career and what power means to her.

Doctors should be more respectful when giving advice to obese people - that is the from the . Too often the advice given by GPs can be simplistic or given too abruptly, which patients can find off-putting. By adopting a non-blaming approach, it is hoped that patients will be encouraged to take action over their weight. So will it work? Jane Deville Almond, Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Chair of , and Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners discuss.

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The Welsh actress stars opposite James Cordon playing the wife of Britain鈥檚 Got Talent winner Paul Potts in the film One Chance. Billed as a comedy, at its heart, One Chance is a love story that shows that with the support of Julie-Ann, Paul Potts was able to overcome years of bullying and a lack of confidence to realise his love and talent for singing opera. Alex started her acting career as a troubled teenager on the S4C Welsh TV soap Pobol Y Cwm, went on to play the young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, and has also appeared in Private Peaceful, Hunderby, and Utopia.

Janet Love, and National Director of the , talks to Jane about her work promoting equality for women in South Africa.

There are nearly half a million 'Pretty or Ugly' videos on YouTube, made by young girls, some aged nine to thirteen, who want to validate their beauty by asking viewers to rate their appearance. is an artist who works with video, photography, and live performance. In order to challenge these videos, and to further her research, she created a number of online personalities.听Like the girls, she has been trolled and received sexually explicit messages from middle aged men. She explores these themes in Pretty Ugly at the Camden People鈥檚 Theatre - part of the Calm Down Dear festival of feminism.

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Pretty Ugly runs from 23 October to 9 November at the in London

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