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Why menstruation is still a taboo in the UK
The documentary film Period. End of Sentence has just won an Oscar. It's about the fight against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation in a rural village in India. Dr Sunny Kleo, Sonal Sachdev Patel and Poorna Bell discuss on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour how there is still stigma around the subject in the UK too.
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