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21/01/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Jane Garvey talks to Sophie Ellis-Bextor about music and life after Strictly Come Dancing.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her new album. How to manage your working life if you have a child with a disability. And the charity that wants a new global minimum age for marriage.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor performs live in the studio from her new album, Wanderlust, and talks to Jane Garvey about her music, family, Strictly Come Dancing, being a woman and mother in music, and growing up with her mum, Blue Peter's Janet Ellis

The UN estimates that 14 million girls enter into child marriage each year and that this becomes the basis for other forms of abuse including rape, domestic violence and the removal of future opportunities. This week the charity Equality Now! has published a report on the issue and it is calling for 18 to be the new global minimum age for marriage.

Lord Rennard the Liberal Democrats' strategist was suspended from the party yesterday. He's refused to apologise to the 4 women who've accused him of sexual harassment. It's a messy and complicated affair that doesn't appear to cover the Liberal Democrats in glory. Where's this all leave women in Westminster?

Have you still got it? When Kate Moss turned 40 last week many of the papers headlined 'Kate still got it at 40'. But what exactly does that mean? 

In the next in our series of working lives of mothers who have disabled children, we meet Jill Carter and her 23 year old daughter Jessie. Jessie has an undiagnosed moderate to severe learning disability but that does not stop her mum being positive and ambitious for her future.
When Jessie was a teenager - like her friends - she wanted a part-time job but when it became clear there was nothing suitable Jill created the opportunity for her.

Presenter Jane Garvey.
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Programme Editor Beverley Purcell.

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