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The longest Serving Woman in the history of The Royal Navy has retired from active service after a 34 year career.听 Warrant Officer First Class Susan Morgan joined the Wrens in 1978 aged 17, serving on five overseas postings and three ships as a Royal Navy police officer. She joins听Jenni to talk about dropping anchor for a final time.

We assume that powerful women are people we know 鈥� but what about all those women who run private companies or public organisations? They鈥檙e often responsible for big budgets and hundreds or thousands of employees but we don鈥檛 always know their names. As part of our series to find the most powerful women in Britain Jenni is joined by Pam Jackson, a听 Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the biggest accounting firms in the UK and Maria Balshaw, Director of the Whitworth Gallery and Manchester Art Gallery to discuss听how much power and influence such women wield?

From Peterloo to the Pankhursts, why has听 Manchester been听 such a fertile seedbed for听 the women鈥檚 rights movement ?听 Jenni explores the city鈥檚听听 history of female听 reformers听听 with Michael Herbert ,听 a trustee of the Working Class Movement Library听 and author of 鈥淯p Then Brave Women鈥�: Manchester鈥檚 Radical Women 1819 鈥� 1918.

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It wasn鈥檛 long ago that hats were part of every self-respecting man鈥檚 daily attire. But what leads a man to wear a hat today? Hat connoisseur, Robert Elms and woolly hat wearing, Justin Moorhouse, join me to discuss what a hat says about a man.

Tomorrow is the second World Prematurity Day. It鈥檚 supported by global organisations including The World Health Organisation and Save the Children and will highlight the fact that premature birth is the biggest killer of new-born babies worldwide听 - causing the deaths of more than one million babies each year. 听The WHO say that 75% of these lives could be saved with some simple but effective, low-cost measures. To discuss the issues Jenni is joined by Dr Joy Lawn, Neonatologist and Director of Global Evidence & Policy for Save the Children.

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