You seem fairly comfortable talking about sex. I am very comfortable with it. I did include my own fantasy in the book. Any clues which one? it is just over 50 years since nancy friday published her groundbreaking book my secret garden, full of women s sexual fantasies. This book, want, is your selection, equally groundbreaking, from women who have written to you from all over the world. We have such a wide range of letters and all different kinds of fantasies from different women and cultures and sexual preferences and diverse backgrounds. Why don t you start by telling me how you feel when you think about having sex? your role in sex education was very much that: a role. You re not a psychologist, but you are, of course, an advocate for women, a supporter of lgbtq+ rights. I wonder how you tread the line between curation of the book and analysing the fantasies. I find it hard to read them and not think, who are they, what s going on in their lives? because they haven t revealed very
And apologised to the actor Amanda Abbington, who appeared on the programme in 2023. Lets cross straight to our media and arts correspondent, david sillito. David, tell us what the report says. Strictly come dancing, the bbc s biggest Entertainment Show by some distance, has been rocked by headlines for the last few months because of allegations by former contestant Amanda Abbington, who left midway through the last series, saying, revealing in interviews later, that she felt that the behaviour of her professional dancer had been abusive, demeaning, insulting and bullying. And what there has been, there has been an investigation into those specific complaints from Amanda Abbington. Bbc studios, the Production Arm of the bbc, has concluded that her concerns and complaints were in part upheld, they have apologised to Amanda Abbington, but not holy. So the question we understand is probably that its a matter of verbal abuse, verbal Harassment And Bullying that have been upheld but nothing
Maria corina machado in venezuela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, stephen. It s a pleasure to be with you again. It s great to talk to you. It s two months now since venezuelans voted in the presidential election. Just tell me what has happened to you since that vote. Well, our victory by a landslide was something the regime didn t expect. As well as the fact that in less than 2a hours, we were able to collect, digitalise and put on a robust web page over 83% of the tally sheets, the official tally sheets that actually demonstrated our victory. It was a 70 over 30 victory, but if it had been a freer election, believe me, we would have won at least by 9010. So this was a huge defeat for the regime. Maduro is naked in front of the whole world and his followers. So his decision was to get surrounded and entrenched around the top brass of the military and in fact, unleash terror. This has reached to thousands of venezuelans that have been detained, and everybody that was directl