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has written a contemporary version of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility - complete with twitter, sports cars and sex. The publication launches the Austen Project, which has commissioned six bestselling authors - including Val McDermid, Alexander McCall Smith, and Curtis Sittenfeld - to update Austen’s six finished novels. But should we re-write Austen? Jenny talks to Joanna about why she embraced the literary challenge.

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Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope is published by Harper Fiction

According to the there are 800 000 people with dementia in the UK, with numbers set to rise to over one million by 2021. In her new book, The Alzheimer Conundrum – Entanglements of Dementia and Aging, Margaret Lock looks at disagreements between the scientific community about what causes it, and how it’s treated. She says it’s almost impossible to know the true extent of the problem and the number of people suffering from the condition – and to distinguish between what counts as normal aging and what’s abnormal.ÌýÌý Jenni is joined by Margaret Lock, and by Alison Cook, Director of External Affairs at the .

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The Alzheimer Conundrum – Entanglements of Dementia and Aging by Margaret Lock is published by Princeton University Press

won Masterchef in May this year. She’s 30 and comes from Hackney in London. She used to work as a credit controller and was a part-time club DJ. Now she’s left that behind to pursue a career in food, and today she’s going to .

The 14th Rugby League World Cup kicks off at Cardiff’s Millennium this Saturday with an opening match between England and Australia.ÌýAs general manager of the tournament, Sally Bolton is responsible for the successful planning of the event.ÌýNow one of the senior figures in Rugby League Football, she began her career as a marketing assistant for the 1995 World Cup.ÌýShe oversaw the first Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford in 1998, has worked for Leeds Rhinos and has been Chief Executive of Wigan Rugby League Club. She joins Jenni to talk about her love of Rugby League and about the challenges of running a World Cup.

The book ‘Coolie Woman,’ is about the indentured workers who replaced slaves on sugar plantations after the British abolished slavery in 1833.ÌýOver the course of 80 years, the British ferried over a million such labourers to more than a dozen colonies across the globe, including British Guiana, Trinidad, Jamaica, Mauritius, and Fiji. In 1903, one indentured woman, Sujara, sailed from India to Guiana. She was pregnant and travelling alone.ÌýNothing much was known about her until a century on, when her great-granddaughter Gaiutra Bahadur decided to trawl the colonial archives and research her life story.ÌýIn doing so Gaiutra uncovered the repressed history of a quarter of a million other indentured women.ÌýGaiutra joins Jenni to talk about these widows, runaways, and outcasts, and how they migrated on epic sea voyages to face hard labour, dismal living conditions, and sexual exploitation.

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'Coolie Woman: The Odyssey Of Indenture' by Gaiutra Bahadur is published by Hurst & Company