Technology giants Facebook and Apple are to help female employees in the US to pay for the cost of freezing their eggs. Should employers pay for such treatment? Does this level the playing field for women or is it a step too far?

Linda Tirado's blog on "why I make terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts", struck a chord. Her take on junk food, smoking and having children with multiple partners was shared online more than seven million times. She talks to Jane about how she felt when it went viral and about her new book on being poor in a wealthy world.

The Human Trafficking Foundation charity estimates 20,000 people are working in slavery in the UK, and says that number is rising. What's being done to tackle the problem.

Plus children's author Kate Saunders has written a sequel to E Nesbit's '5 Children and It', taking the children and the Psammead through World War 1 and into adulthood. So, what was the inspiration behind the idea ?

And Rachel, currently revived at the Finborough Theatre in London, is the first play by an African American woman to be produced professionally in 1916. Ola Ince, the director explains the significance. of its writer Angelina Weld Grimké who was a poet, dramatist, journalist, teacher, essayist, radical feminist and lesbian icon.
Presented by Jane Garvey
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