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This June Brazil will host Ìýthe 2014 World Cup.Ìý Earlier this week the Brazil’s either partially or wholly believe that "if dressed provocatively, women deserve to be attacked and raped." In addition, the study revealed nearly sixty per cent of those questioned believed that "if women knew how to behave, there would be less rape." The report has triggered a backlash on social media across Brazil. ÌýNana Queiroz was the first to protest on facebook with the campaign ‘Nao Mereco Ser Estuprada’ (I Don’t Deserve to be Raped). ÌýAll this is timely, of course, as tens of thousands of football fans flood into Brazil this summer for the World Cup.

Ìýis a singer-songwriter who has just been nominated for Performing Artist of the Year by the Journal Culture Awards for 2014, an award that recognises an artist that has stood out during 2014. Later this month Kathryn has a new single out, ‘Monday Morning’, from her 10th album, ‘Crown Electric’.Ìý And to honour the 50th anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kathryn has written a sequence of songs inspired by scenes from the novel and informed by events in Sylvia Plath's life.Ìý

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kathryn Williams will be playing at the on Friday 4th April.

Last weekend saw a flurry of weddings as legislation changed allowing same sex couples to get married, rather than have a civil partnership and on this programme last week we spoke to the happily married Sue Wilkinson.Ìý For some, this has raised the question of whether lesbian and gay couples should get married, squeezing themselves into an already shaky heterosexual model.Ìý Rosie Wilby is a comedian, writer and musician and one of her shows is titled Is Monogamy Dead.Ìý Dr Anna Einarsdottir is from Hull University Business School and has studied gay and lesbian relationships.Ìý

Research carried out by telecommunications operator TalkTalk, recently claimed the most common time to call home is Monday evening at 7pm and the average natter lasts twenty two minutes. It’s bound to vary hugely between individual families and Ìýwith the rise of social media, the phone is now just one way Ìýto maintain contact. Is phoning home still the institution Ìýit once was?Ìý Actress, Maureen Lipman, who played ÌýÌý‘Beattie’ in the British Telecom TV ads, and Sathnam Sanghera, author of ‘Marriage Material join Jenni to discuss.

Tansy Hoskins has written a book on the fashion industry.Ìý In it she disapproves of the idea of fashion itself and looks at the social consequences of the industry, from the conditions of its workers to the question of the ‘size zero’ or whether fashion is racist (yes it is, she says).Ìý Tansy focuses on both high end luxury fashion and high street claiming that the fashion industry is a trick to divert attention away from who makes the clothes and who is making the money.ÌýShe joins Jenni to discuss the issues along with Orsola de Castro Co Founder and curator of Estethica, the British fashion council initiative at London fashion Week.