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Nicole Farhi - best known for her eponymous fashion line - has left all that behind and turned to sculpture.听Her first exhibition, showing 12 busts of famous people, opens this week.听 She joins Jane to explain why she鈥檚 moved on from fashion to art, how the two compare, and if she misses London Fashion Week.

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is at London鈥檚 Bowman Sculpture from 17 September to 3 October 2014

Fashion can sometimes cause outrage. Remember Lady Gaga鈥檚 meat dress? Or Bjork鈥檚 swan costume? They caused quite a stir, but had the stars worn these outfits in the 16th Century they could have been fined for 鈥榠mmoral鈥� behaviour by the 鈥榝ashion police.鈥� Academic Giulia Galastro tells Jane about the historic Sumptuary Law Lords crusading against flamboyance, and fashion historian Amber Jane Butchart looks at who has taken over the style patrol today.

A new genre of film is here: the 鈥渁bortion rom com.鈥� While Hollywood has often been criticised for skirting round the idea of abortion, the new film Obvious Child has been praised for treating it as something 鈥榦rdinary鈥�. Can you really have a comedy about abortion? How much has the portrayal of unwanted pregnancies on the big screen changed over the decades?听 Fran Bigman, who recently finished a PhD on the portrayal of abortion in film and literature, talks Jane through the history of abortion in movies.

Madame Bovary, published in 1857,听tells the story of Emma - a silly, greedy, and unsatisfied young wife trapped by the conventions of French bourgeois society.听She longs for self-assertion and escape, but is eventually destroyed by her daydreams.听It鈥檚 not a nice story, but is one of the greatest novels of all time. Dr Stephen Goddard is a lecturer in French at Oxford University and he joins Jane to discuss why Flaubert鈥檚 brilliantly observed tragedy still resonates today.

A has revealed there can be a 鈥渃limate of coercion鈥� when it comes to 鈥榮ex acts鈥� like anal sex, and that consent and mutual pleasure isn鈥檛 always a priority. The study of 16-18 year olds was carried out by the London School of Hygiene, who say that some young men and women have anal sex, and while it is commonly depicted in pornography, it鈥檚 usually absent from sex education, and 鈥渟eems unmentionable in many social contexts.鈥� So is there a need for young people to talk more openly about pleasure and consent when it comes to sex acts? And does this need to be directly addressed in sex education? To discuss, Jane is joined by one of the authors of the report, Dr Cicely Marston of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and by sex educator Justin Hancock of BISH Training.