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For this year’s Woman’s Hour Power List, we are looking at the women who influence the way we live our lives. In the run up to the announcement of the top influencers in July, today we look at the music industry. How much influence do artists have over us? Who are the women behind the scenes influencing their success? And how did they all come to be so influential? How do they work together to make a piece of music really big? To discuss, Jane is joined by Alison Wenham, the Chief Executive of the Association of Independent Music

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Summer is here, and if you’re between the ages of 25 and 35 that means one thing – weddings and hen dos. You love your friends, and you’re happy for them, but when every weekend in the summer is taken up by weddings it can all be a bit much, particularly if the thought of getting done up to the nines and making small talk over your canapé fills you with dread, and you just know you’ll get put on the singles table - again. It’s an expensive business too; according to new figures it now costs on average £640 to attend a wedding. We talk to Louise Harris and Aleisha McCormack from who gives us their advice on surviving wedding season, both for your self-esteem and your wallet.

The UK government has announced new measures designed to prevent schoolgirls being taken abroad for female genital mutilation (FGM) over the summer. Although banned in the UK in 1985, there have yet to be any prosecution for FGM. ÌýThe Nigerian Senate have issued a nationwide ban on FGM.Ìý ÌýAdesewa Josh a journalist based in Lagos andÌý Naana Otoo-Oyortey, executive director of , the anti-FGM charity founded in 1983 in the UK, join Jane to discuss.

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T has been training young volunteers from local charities to do FGM awareness in schools and to run workshops for teachers to help them use their influence in the classroom to combat FGM.Ìý We report from a workshop run by the BCCG and for teachers at the City Academy.

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As England prepare to take on Columbia in the Women’s World CupÌý we look at their performance so far and assess whether or not they’ve got the players that can take them all the way to the Final. Plus a look at what impact the tournament is having on the women’s game as a whole with sports broadcaster and commentator Jacqui Oatley.