Fashion game changer Mary Quant, government help with childcare, helping kids get interested in Shakespeare, and why are women more likely to take time off sick from work? Show more

Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, presented by Jane Garvey, discussing men who pay for sex, music in the workplace, and Grace Dent on Growing Up a Girl. Show more

Lisa Jardine explores how fiction can be more useful than fact in helping us understand the past. Show more

This season's fashion for red prompts Lisa Jardine to reflect on the past power of the colour. Show more

Lisa Jardine draws lessons about the relationship between science and human values from the career of the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, who helped to develop the atom bomb. Show more

Lisa Jardine reflects on the internationalism that underpins the progress of science, in a week when individual nations celebrate their Nobel prize winners. Show more

Lisa Jardine compares the contributions of Alan Turing and Ada Lovelace to computer science, and contrasts their views on the possibility of machine intelligence. Show more

Lisa Jardine reflects on the sensitive questions surrounding IVF, as she comes to the end of her term as chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Show more

Jenni Murray and guests discuss the female characters in Peter Grimes, a new biography of Welsh suffragette Lady Rhondda, retiring HFEA chair Lisa Jardine, and children in parks. Show more

Broadcaster Lisa Jardine turns detective on her famous father, Jacob Bronowski. Through his personal and professional dilemmas she reveals the story of science in the 20th century. Show more

Professor Lisa Jardine, academic, biographer and public thinker, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Show more