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World Service,28 May 1999,28 mins

Tears and Tiaras: Are Beauty Pageants Anachronistic?

Everywoman

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Miss Universe took place in Trinidad and Tobago this year, but support for the beauty pageant was not universal. Why? Also on the programme: Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif discusses her latest novel. Plus, a look at women peace-makers in the Netherlands; and a vegetable-seller from Chenai, South India shares her weekly diary.

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