With Jenni Murray: On today's programme:
Men & Infertility: On the day when the UK's first Fertility Show opens at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre, we ask why men find it harder than women to talk about their infertility;
UCAS Forms are being filled out all over the country - should parents be involved or should young people be left to stand on their own two feet?
Lycees - known as a tinned, syrupy dessert in the UK, but we discover their nobler cultural history in China;
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WHNews: Woman's Hour 04 11 09Tennis legend Serena Williams talks about her extraordinary career and writing her autobiography, we hear about a new radio soap set in Kabul, couples who work together discuss the pleasures and pitfalls ( in the light of the new recommendations that MPs should not be able to employ their own relatives ) and finally, what's on your dressing table? We scratch the glass surface of this altar to womanly wiles.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
WHNews: 05 Nov 09Jenni debates whose responsibility it is to keep children safe online; author Sue Townsend talks about the return of the much-loved Adrian Mole, now 39 and a quarter and still not very grown-up; the latest revival of the play "Mrs Klein" prompts a discussion about the legacy of the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein; and Sophie Grigson cooks up some soup live in the studio.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
WHNews: Woman's Hour 03 Nov 2009Miranda Hart - The comedian on her new BBC2 series; Women Engineers and Work Clothes - Is there a need for more appropriate work attire? The Children who Fought Hitler - The memorial school in Ypres; Allison Fisher - One of the greatest women billiard players in the world.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
WHNews: Woman's Hour 2nd November 2009Today on Woman's Hour Martine McCutcheon talks about her first novel, 'The Mistress'. Jane is joined by children's solicitor, Christina Blacklaws, Anthony Douglas, Chief Executive of Cafcass and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Famlies, Baroness Delyth Morgan to talk about the reasons behind and the consequences of a 47% rise in applications to take children into care in the last year. We hear from poet Grace Nichols on her latest collection, 'Picasso, I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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