Ashley Clarke reviews The Birth of a Nation, poet Ruth Padel reveals the reality of Christmas, painter Joan Eardley, actor Mark Lockyer on Living With The Lights On. Show more

Jessie Buckley on starring in period dramas, Caroline Criado Perez on the statue of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett and why office housework tends to fall to black women. Show more

Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female perspective on the world, discussing cancer with Sheila Dillon, British women and Islam, fatherhood and female composers. Show more