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In our New Year’s Day programme we ran an interview with Sinead O’Connor, who spoke frankly about her experience of having bipolar disorder. Since then we have received an email from a listener, Rita Long, about her experiences. Jane speaks to Rita about the challenges and positive effects that her mental health issues have had on raising her sons, and to Professor Steve Jones, Director of the for Mental Health Research at the University of Lancaster, which is researching an online intervention for parents with bipolar, and to Suzanne Hudson, Chief Executive of

into an online intervention for parents with bipolar has more information about the study, and a page where people can register their interest.

You probably remember having posters of pop stars on your bedroom wall as a teenager, but what about now? Do we - or should we - grow out of drooling over music groups or famous actors? According to his website, teen sensation and pop moppet Justin Beiber has thousands of so-called Beliebers over the age of 40. Yasmeen Khan joins Jane Garvey to talk about being a superfan, and her new play Don’t You Know Who I Am?, which deals with the relationship between fan and star.

A recent debate in the House of Lords looked at whether the UK government was fulfilling its obligations under the Geneva Convention to ensure that UK funded medical care for women impregnated by rape in war was ‘non-discriminatory,’ and whether it included access to abortion services. The US has a ‘no abortion’ ban in its foreign aid, so what impact does that have on treatment given to women by organisations which also receive funding from the UK? What more can the UK government do to ensure their humanitarian aid offers abortion to victims of war rape? To discuss, Jane is joined by Baroness Glenys Kinnock, who took part in the debate and is former Opposition Spokesperson for International Development and Co-president of the Labour Campaign for International Development, and also by Richard Miller, Executive Director of Action Aid in the UK.

Eleonora Duse was the most celebrated Italian actress of her time. A contemporary and rival of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, her talents were widely recognised by writers and artists such as George Bernard Shaw, and she is said to have inspired Anton Chekov and James Joyce. A recent discovery of her ‘lost library’ at Cambridge University sheds new light on her art and influences. Dr Anna Sica who uncovered the books joins Jane Garvey in the studio.

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection by Anna Sica and Alison Wilson is published by Mimesis.

Following the horrific rape of a young woman in Delhi, and the discussions which followed worldwide about the safety of women and the attitudes of men, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service asked young women from cities across the globe to record a girls night out to see how they are treated by men and how this influences their behaviour. In the first of the series we join a student on a night out in the capital of Uganda, Kampala.