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In South Korea a popular game show called Now on My Way To Meet You is growing in popularity.听 It is a part talk, part talent show that features attractive women who fled the North in search of a better life.听 Recently a United Nations report drew attention to the treatment of women in North Korea, saying that 鈥渄iscrimination against women is "pervasive in all aspects of society".听 Their findings highlight testimony given to the panel from defectors which included an account of a woman forced to drown her own baby, children imprisoned from birth and starved, and families tortured for watching a foreign soap opera.听 Nearly 70% of people to escape North Korea are female.听Kim Young-soon,听one of the defectors now living in South Korea, speaks to听大象传媒 News reporter Paul Adams.听 Gianluca Spezza,听Research director at , a website that provides analysis and news on North Korea discusses the issues with Jenni.听

Blues musician Ben Harper has teamed with his mum, Ellen Harper, to record a duet album 鈥淐hildhood Home.鈥� The album addresses different aspects of love, the duality of love and human nature.听 As the title implies, the project traces its roots to Ben Harper鈥檚 childhood: his grandparents in 1958 opened a folk music centre in Claremont, California, which Ellen Harper still runs. Because she was a single mother, Ben Harper used to spend time there after school and on weekends, which both have credited with shaping his own musical path.听 Ben Harper wrote six of the songs on the album, and Ellen wrote the other four. 鈥淐hildhood Home鈥� is due May 6 on Concord Records. They join Jenni in the studio.

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Next month, a new series begins on Channel 4. The aim of the programme is to explore notions of modern masculinity and whether British men still have enough practical skills to survive in the wild. In the programme, survival expert, Bear Grylls, abandons thirteen British men on a remote, uninhabited pacific island for a month. The men, who film themselves, are completely alone, with only the clothes they stand up in and some basic tools. 听 But of course women in the past have always needed to survive living rough too and there is a rich heritage of female adventurers with survival skills among all different nationalities. Jenni is joined by two modern day women adventurers who relish living rough, was trained by Ray Mears and is a survival expert and bushcraft instructor at Woodsmoke, the school she鈥檚 set up in Cumbria where people can learn how to survive in the wild, is an explorer who鈥檚 travelled to more听 than 80 countries and has written 9 travel books translated into 5 languages. She鈥檚 founder of the Dodwell Trust a charity dedicated to the country and people of Madagascar.

Last听Tuesday a collection of mugshots was sold at auction for 拢1,500 which dated back to 1905.听 The mugshots are mainly of women. They were given out by the police to warn publicans of women who were known drunks and should not be served, as they had previously been convicted of being drunk and incapable. joins Jenni to talk about the pictures.

From next year, those who have become parents through surrogacy will be given employment protection, leave and pay equivalent to maternity rights.听 These new rights will be a form of adoption leave and means that intended parents can choose which of them get the main leave, the equivalent of maternity leave, and which gets the secondary leave, the equivalent of paternity leave.听 The new UK legislation has become law in the same week that the has announced its decision that EU law does not give a right to maternity leave to mothers conceiving through surrogacy.听 Each EU country does have the right to alter its own legislation.听 Jenni is joined by , a lawyer who has been campaigning for this change through the non-profit organisation .