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Why is it more socially acceptable to be critical about men鈥檚 hair loss than a woman鈥檚 thinning hair loss? Jenni speaks to the radio presenter Mike Sweeney who has recently had a hair transplant and Brendan Murdock, founder of Murdock London, the men鈥檚 barber and grooming business.

Separated听parents are to gain the legal right to spend time with their children. An听amendment to current legislation is expected to come in to force this year.听It听stresses the importance of both parents being involved in the child鈥檚 upbringing. The change is seen as unnecessary by legal experts, but welcomed by fathers' rights groups. So what are the practicalities? Lucy has a ten year old daughter and a fourteen year old son and shares parenting equally with her ex who lives close by.听 Noel went to court 8 years ago to get weekend access to his now 13 year old daughter. They join Jenni to discuss.

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The President of the Law Society has claimed that 鈥渋f career progression was based on pure merit, some male business leaders and law firm senior partners would never even have seen the paintings on the boardroom wall鈥�. Jenni asks Lucy Scott-Moncrieff why she thinks this and what should be done to change the situation.

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If you are听single, what鈥檚 your sex life like? Is it an important part of your life? How do you negotiate the needs of intimacy and the needs of independence? To discuss Jenni is joined by the writer and ex-editor of Cosmopolitan Marcelle d鈥橝rgy Smith who has been听single most of her life, and听by thirty year old听stand-up comedian, who is also single.

For most Londoners, when the first bombs fell in August 1940, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for some writers this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became a setting for intense love affairs. Lara Feigel joins Jenni to discuss her new book The Love-charm of Bombs - a wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers, including Elizabeth Bowen, Rose Macaulay and Hilde Spiel. The Love-charm of Bombs 鈥� Restless Lives in the Second World War is published by Bloomsbury.