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Generations of biographers, novelists and filmmakers have imagined and re-imagined the life of Anne Boleyn and her complicated relationship with Henry the Eighth.Ìý Even before Anne’s execution Henry set about erasing all physical traces of her – destroying her letters and portraits – yet ironically she enjoys the kind of immorality not granted to his other wives.ÌýÌý Dr Susan Bordo’s book The Creation of Anne Boleyn attempts to unravel the facts from the myths about Henry’s tragic queen, and she joins Sheila McClennon to explain why when we know so little about Anne, so much has been written about her.Ìý

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The creation of Anne Boleyn by Susan Bordo.Ìý Published 9 January,Ìý 2014 by Oneworld PublicationsÌýÌýÌý

To women of a certain age the symptoms of the menopause can become Ìýdepressingly familiar: Ìýhot flushes, night sweats, and oftenÌý that’s just the half of it. AÌý lucky fewÌý will escape scotÌý free, most of us will probably brace ourselves forÌý some symptoms at some stage but how many of us Ìýexpect to still be gettingÌý sweats and flushes in Ìýour sixties and beyond..? Sheila talks to Diana Gaines, a sufferer in her seventies, and to Dr Jane Woyka who specialises in advising andÌý treating women on theÌý menopause.

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The Democratic Republic of CongoÌý has been labelled by the UN as the ‘rape capital of the world.’ÌýA study published in the American Journal of Public Health in the summer of 2011 found that 1,152 women are raped in DCR every day – a rate of 48 per hour. It’s estimatedÌý that 12% of the country’s female population has been raped at least once.ÌýÌýSex abuse is growing and not just in conflict zones where typically it has been used as a weapon of war. Domestic rape is on the increase and sexual violence laws introduced in DRC in 2006 are said to have had limited impact.ÌýÌýBut a new project – known as Wababa – has been focussing on men [via a 12-week programme] and helping them address their attitudes towards masculinity and violence towards women. The 12-week course is designed to get to the root of sexual violence by focussing on the perpetrators in order to create culture change.Ìý Kati Whitaker went to visitÌýthe project.

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Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next head of the United States Federal Reserve making her the most powerful central banker in the world, and arguably, the most powerful woman in the world.Ìý Frances Cairncross,Ìý an economist and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford and Kate Grussing,Ìý a former banking executive and founder of Sapphire Partners join Sheila McClennon to discuss what difference Yellen’s appointment could make to the position of women in the banking and financial sectors.