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Oprah Winfrey is an American media owner, presenter, producer, philanthropist and actor.听听She is best known for her award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show.听 She has been hailed by Life magazine as the most influential woman of her generation.听听She has recently launched the OWN television network, magazine, radio and website.听 Oprah joined Jenni to discuss her latest role, as Gloria Gaines, in The Butler; her memories of the civil rights movement in America; and to explain what drives her ambition and her give her view of power.

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The Butler is in cinemas from today.

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Is the video for Lily Allen's first single in four years feminist? Or does it reinforce misogynistic attitudes throughout the music industry, as well as stereotypes of race and class? Sophie Heawood, Kieran Yates and Reni Eddo-Lodge joined Jenni on Thursday听to discuss.

Ann is the daughter of a Newcastle shoemaker, became one of the first women to be qualified to work on offshore oil and gas rigs and, after a successful career in banking, she now works at the finance company MasterCard where she manages a staff of 4000.

Women feel at their least attractive on Monday mornings, according to a study by American marketing company PHD.听 So, PHD suggests that Monday is the perfect day to present women with adverts for instant beauty rescues and dressing for success.听 On Thursdays, women feel at their best, so this is the best time to bombard them with positive, life-affirming products.听 This is in the US, but what is happening in the UK? Gail Parminter, Creative director of Madwomen and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The Vagenda blog editor discuss targeted advertising and how women are sold stuff.听 What tactics are used?听 How harmless is the concept? How aware of women of the ways they are being sold to?听 And what might be the advertising of the future?听

Biddy Baxter, Editor of Blue Peter and children鈥檚 TV pioneer is to be presented with a Special Award at this year's Children's BAFTAs in recognition of her outstanding contribution to children鈥檚 media and the entertainment. Biddy edited the programme between 1962 and 1988 and is credited with inventing the format which the programme, and many others, still follow today. She revolutionised children鈥檚 broadcasting with the Blue Peter Badge, the expedition and the annual appeal. She joined听Jenni Murray on Wednesday听to talk about her extraordinary career and the importance of never talking down to children.听

Watching gay men on television openly flirting after other men has become relatively standard viewing on prime time television. Think Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood on Strictly Come Dancing. Woman鈥檚 Hour looks at why rarely, if ever, you see lesbians excessively flirting with other women in the same way on similar popular programmes. Jay Hunt, now a short film producer but best known to our audience as the presenter of Would Like to Meet, and Gareth McLean, TV critic and writer,听joined Jane on Tuesday.

Singer songwriter Nadine Shah - who鈥檚 been compared to PJ Harvey and Nick Cave听- joined us to play her track Aching Bones live in the studio. She talks to us about the influences behind her often dark music, recording her album in a curtain superstore, and her musical upbringing - when her Pakistani father would sing Urdu poetry about love and loss in their home in Tyne and Wear.

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Nadine Shah鈥檚 debut album Love Your Dum and Mad is out now, and her latest single, Aching Bones, taken from the album, is out on 25 November.听