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Dateline: 5th April, 2004 Sex Week at Greenwich Sex Week runs from Monday 19 - Saturday 24 April, and opens with a comedy gala presented in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust. Sandi Toksvig is to host the high profile event, with performers including Channel 4's Popworld presenter Simon Amstell, Time Out 2004 award-winner Julia Morris and Jonathan Ross regulars Four Poofs And A Piano all finding ample laughs from the theme of sex. On Tuesday 20 April Richard Herring (This Morning With Richard Not Judy, Christ On A Bike) presents the international smash-hit Talking Cock, his irreverently phallic answer to The Vagina Monologues. Thankfully rejecting the dextrous genital origami of Puppetry Of The Penis, Richard Herring's hilarious one-man show looks back through time, and across numerous cultures, to reveal the truth about man and his manhood in the 21st Century. On Wednesday 21 April in Sex On Trial, the theatre examines one of the most contentious sexual issues - prostitution. To coincide with a forthcoming white paper on the reform of prostitution laws, Nick Higham chairs a debate on the legalisation of the world's 'oldest profession'. Panellists include Lord Faulkner of Worcester, Dr Helen Self (author of Prostitution, Women and Misuse of the Law) and Ciaran McKinney from male and transsexual sex-worker support organisation SW5. On Thursday 22 April the theatre hosts a sex education training day for senior and upper junior school teachers, co-ordinated by Kings College London. The free event explores the ways in which sex education can be taught in today's multi-cultural, multi-faith society. Speakers include University College London's Professor Anne Johnson, co-author of the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, and Kings College London's Professor of Medicine and the Arts, Professor Brian Hurwitz. On Friday 23 April the theatre returns to lighter subject matter with the comic debate English Men Are No Good At Sex, with chair Miles Kington taking charge of panellists Kathy Lette, Deborah Moggach, Leslie Phillips and Arthur Smith. Whether the old cliché proves true, or a surprise celebration of the English man emerges, the combination of panellists guarantees a unique evening's entertainment. On Saturday 24 April, following the sell-out success of 2003's Meaning Of Life Walking Tour, the theatre takes to the streets again for Natural Theatre Company's A Saucy Stroll. Natural Theatre Company has been making people laugh for over 30 years with their unique style of street theatre. Their eccentric characters have taken them all over the world, and earned them many international awards. Now, with the entirely family friendly A Saucy Stroll, audiences will be taken on a unique walking tour of Greenwich, experiencing one of the surreal, the unexpected and the downright hilarious events that have taken the Natural Theatre Company from America to Japan, Australia to Croatia, the South Bank to the Berlin Philharmonic, and beyond… Later that evening, drawing Sex Week to a close, the venue hosts a rare live performance from award-winning songwriter and broadcaster Tom Robinson. Tom's bitter new wave polemic Glad To Be Gay was an improbable top 20 hit in 1978 and was followed in the mid 80s by the romantic passion of War Baby and Still Loving You. His groundbreaking Radio 4 programme on men and masculinity The Locker Room ran for six series during the early 90s, and he won a Sony Radio Award for the BBC documentary You've Got To Hide Your Love Away in 1997. Tom now presents The Evening Sequence for BBC 6 Music every Monday to Thursday from 7-10pm. Still glad, still gay and a happily married father of two, Tom's show is entitled Having It Both Ways. During Sex Week the theatre bar and café will host Willie Rushton - Laughing At Sex, an exhibition of cartoons by the much loved actor, humourist and satirist. The exhibition, which is curated by Private Eye director Tony Rushton, features work from Rushton's Dirty Book and Longford Limericks. Sex Week director Hilary Strong added, "We're delighted with the line-up of events, performers and contributors to what is sure to be a wonderful week - and with any luck it's finally time to wave goodbye to that reputation for prudishness!" Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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