Petula Clark, Jo Wood

Petula Clark has been a star all her life. She started singing at seven, made her radio debut at nine, appeared at the Royal Albert Hall at 11, and has sold over 68 million records. Now in her 80s, she is back with a new album, Lost In You. Petula sings live in the studio.

Is the trend for sew-your-own and home-making crafts just another way of telling women to get back into the kitchen?

Guests: Jessica Mann, author of The Fifties Mystique and Tessa Evelegh, author of The Great British Sewing Bee

Get the pattern for the Official Woman's Hour Tea Cosy created for us by by Belinda Boden, Jane Chadwick and Jess Quinton

The rural state of Bihar has some of the worst levels of literacy and maternal and infant mortality rates in India but a pioneering project is providing an innovative approach to improving health by using mobile phones.  

Organisations involved in the project include: BBC Media Action and the “Ananya” programme set up by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Woman's Hour India Special

For 20 years Jo Wood worked as Ronnie’s PA on all the Rolling Stones’ tours. She talks about the highs and lows of their relationship, the drugs, the tours, the very public breakdown of her marriage and how she moved on to become a businesswoman.
Hey Jo, A Rock and Roll Fairytale, by Jo Wood, published by Harper Collins.

This week, the actress Phyllida Law spoke on the programme about her mother’s dementia. "How heavy is a standard hammer?" is one of the questions that were put to her mother to help diagnose her dementia. To explain the reasons behind those questions Jenni is joined by Nick Fox, Professor of Clinical Neurology, Institute of Neurology, University College London, and scientific advisor to Alzheimer’s Research UK.