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Is Gossip Just Harmless Fun?

Why is gossip – and gossip magazines – mainly associated with women?

As gossip magazines become the fastest growing media sector in Spain, where does this huge appetite for celebrity news come from? And do men gossip too?

Also on the programme: A Catholic nun has succeeded in raising enough money to provide a place of sanctuary for street girls in Bombay, India. Plus, South Africa's best-known story-teller Gcina Mlophe talks about her week in London running story-telling workshops.

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29 minutes

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