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Goverment statistics released early last year reported that 28% of women who are victims of the most serious sexual offences never tell anyone about it. The Rape Crisis movement believe that only around 15% of women and girls who experience sexual violence ever report to the police. So why do so few women disclose what has happened? Why don鈥檛 they go to the police and what does a Rape Crisis centre offer as an alternative that led to 78,000 calls in the last year? Jenni went to a Rape Crisis centre in London to investigate.

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Listen again: in Hertfordshire to see how they deal with allegations of sexual violence

British female artists have dominated the music industry over recent years with听Emeli Sande, Adele, Susan Boyle and Amy Winehouse leading听the way in album sales. But what about on the other side of the mixing desk?听 What do the women do behind the scenes? What goes on in the world of A&R, what do you do as a record producer and how does an engineer spend her day? Jenni talks to three women at the top of their game within the world of music. Guests: Jo Charrington, Amy Morgan听and Mandy Parnell.

To women of a certain age the symptoms of the menopause can become 听depressingly familiar: 听hot flushes, night sweats, and often听 that鈥檚 just the half of it. A听 lucky few听 will escape scot听 free, most of us will probably brace ourselves for听 some symptoms at some stage but how many of us 听expect to still be getting听 sweats and flushes in 听our sixties and beyond..? Sheila talks to Diana Gaines, a sufferer in her seventies, and to Dr Jane Woyka who specialises in advising and听 treating women on the听 menopause.

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With an increasing divorce rate and ageing population, the number of single people in need of care in the UK is on the rise. One consequence of this is that more and more individuals are taking on the care of an ex-partner. But what emotional difficulties come with the role? And what legal barriers stand in the way? Jane talks to Emily Holzhausen from and Rachel, who took on the primary care of her ex-husband three and a half years ago after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

In September 2011, Judith Tebbutt was snatched by Somali pirates from a beach resort in Kenya where she was holidaying with her husband, and taken to Somalia where she was held hostage in harsh and humiliating conditions. She believed her husband David had been injured in the attack, but that he would quickly find her and pay her ransom. Only after weeks in a cramped, dirty room did she receive a phone call from her son Ollie, telling her that David had been killed. After six months of incarceration, deprivation and near starvation, Jude was returned to her family. She shares her story of remarkable courage and strength, and tells us how she is trying to rebuild her life back home.

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Judith Tebbutt A Long Walk Home, published by Faber and Faber, was released in paperback last week.

In the last of the Woman鈥檚 Hour discussions about the reality for women in each of the emerging MINT economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey, today Jenni Murray turns to Turkey to find out why听women鈥檚 economic participation听is the lowest of all the MINT countries?听Despite being one of the world鈥檚 fastest growing economies only听one in four women are in or looking for work.听Jenni is joined by the writers and commentators Elif Shafak and Alev Scott.

Listen to our items on the situation for women in the other MINT economies: