BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Kate Shortman & Izzy Thorpe, Dame Katherine Grainger, Nicola Adams, Anna Kessel, Frankie Miren, Laura Middleton-Hughes.

Anita Rani on Women at the Tokyo Olympic with Dame Katherine Grainger, Nicola Adams , Anna Kessel and artistic swimmers Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe.The Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics starts today and Team GB are taking more women athletes than men for the first time in 125 years. Of the 376 athletes selected, 201 are female.

Staying with the games, we’ll hear from artistic swimmers Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe who are representing Great Britain at Tokyo 2020. The pair have spoken out about receiving trolling and bullying for their professional synchronised swimmer physiques, describing themselves as having "big shoulders, small boobs and small bums".

We talk to the writer and activist Frankie Miren’s about her novel "The Service" in which she draws on her personal experience to look at the vulnerabilities and dangers of life as a sex worker. One listener has contacted us about a new support group they've set up based on her own experiences of abuse within a religious organisation. She tells us about “Escape-escapee” which she says will help people who want to leave what she calls "high control groups". She was abused by a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses and her case went to the High Court six years ago.

Another listener Laura Middleton-Hughes got in touch about her nipple tattoos. She tells Anita why she chose to have 3D areoles tattooed on her breasts after reconstructive surgery,

gbsynchro I love my flat bum. It took my years to achieve it 😁

Laurahenrietta1 Twitter tells me this post contains 'material you have chosen not to see ' . You're wrong, Twitter. Great picture.

Laurahenrietta1 That’s amazing!

Brave Lady..

Escape_escapee PLEASE. we seriously need to coordinate exmormon stevebloor johndehlin LDSMorg

uk_sport NicolaAdamsOBE Anna_Kessel I want what you're on!

uk_sport NicolaAdamsOBE Anna_Kessel

uk_sport NicolaAdamsOBE Anna_Kessel No. Probably the worst, if anything.

uk_sport NicolaAdamsOBE Anna_Kessel

uk_sport NicolaAdamsOBE Anna_Kessel Not in the categories where they’re competing against men

uk_sport NicolaAdamsOBE Anna_Kessel No. Laurel Hubbard and Stephanie Barrett have taken two spots from Women.

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