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Last week Woman鈥檚 Hour looked at childcare around the world, focusing on how pre-school children are cared for when their parents go back to work. We explored two different systems; a boarding kindergarten for children in China and childcare in Fiji, where grandparents and older siblings look after younger children when their parents return to work. But what is the best way to look after children and can childcare affect a child鈥檚 development? Jane is joined by the psychologist Penelope Leach and by Dr Eva Lloyd, Reader in Early Childhood at the University of East London, to discuss the issues.

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Lady Barbara Judge CBE has been a pioneer for women in the worlds of law, banking and business, and is known as one of the best connected women in Britain. She is Chairman Emerita of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Chairman of the Pension Protection Fund. She talks to Jane about how to be taken seriously, her inspirational mother, and her views on how to be a working mother.

Susan Calman听performs a monologue recorded in front of an audience: the year that Santa bought me a School jumper for Christmas.

James Morton was runner-up on The Great British Bake Off 2012.听 He learned to bake with his grandmother, growing up in the Shetland Isles.听 He is now studying Medicine at the University of Glasgow.听 He has also written his first book, Brilliant Bread. With the Christmas season in mind,听 James shows Jane how to cook the perfect Stollen.

As many as one in four women prisoners in England and Wales self-harm every year, and female prisoners are four times more likely to self-harm than male inmates, according to the largest ever study of self-harm in prisons, published in听听 The study examined the prevalence of self-harm in all prisoners in England and Wales between 2004 and 2009.听 The rates for women have fallen over the last two years but according to the latest figures available from 2012 women still account for 28% of all self-harm incidents in 2012 despite representing just 5% of the total prison population.听听Jane discusses the issue with Dr Seena Fazel, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow听 Psychiatrist at Oxford University and author of the report, and with Mandy Taylor, mental health support worker at Anawim Woman's Centre in Birmingham.