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In a听special programme earlier ths week, we looked at how the war shaped the lives of a generation of women.听While women in their thousands volunteered for war service and the number of women employed went up by more than a million by 1918, what power did women really achieve outside the home and how lasting was it? Jenni Murray was joined by Baroness Shirley Williams on the war's impact on the generation of her mother, Testament of Youth author Vera Brittain; writer and broadcaster Kate Adie; Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College; and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews. We also heard about the work of doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson who established and ran the only British army hospital - the Endell Street Military听Hospital听- staffed entirely by women in 1915, treating wounded soldiers.

J.K Rowling has admitted that the relationship between Hermione and Ron in the Harry Potter series would have ended up in relationship counselling, and wonders whether Ron would really have been able to make Hermione happy.听 Were you one of the many readers Rowling suspected felt the same way?听 Which fictional couples would survive beyond the last page of a book, and which are doomed to fail?听 We talked to author Jojo Moyes and to writer and playwright Samantha Ellis.

US rapper Angel Haze is an outspoken voice in hip-hop, with her raw personal tales of rape and sexual abuse. She says she rejects labels of race, gender, and sexuality, and often deals with difficult topics in her lyrics, rather than common rap themes of money, drugs, and sex, as she wants to help others by sharing her experiences. Behind all this, she has her own powerful life story to tell - of a tough upbringing, growing up in a 鈥榬eligious cult鈥�, being abused as a child, being banned from listening to music, coming out as 鈥減ansexual鈥�, and standing out as a fearless female voice in the otherwise male-dominated, often homophobic, world of hip-hop. She was third in last year鈥檚 大象传媒 Sound Of 2013 Poll, and now her debut album is just out, after she leaked it online against her record label鈥檚 wishes in a rush to let her fans hear her message. She joined Jane Garvey to tell her about her life and her music.

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Dirty Gold by Angel Haze is out now on Island Republic

This week the world of film and theatre has been rocked by news of the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Police suspect the actor died of an overdose; he was discovered with a hypodermic syringe in his arm and bags of heroin in his Manhattan apartment. Hoffman lived through a familiar pattern of experimentation, addiction, rehab, abstinence, relapse鈥� He leaves behind three children.听 Jenni was joined by Elizabeth Burton-Phillips, founder of听听which is a support group for families of drug addicts, and听by Gail, who spent 20 years with a partner who was addicted to heroin.

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Dame Eileen Atkins is currently on stage playing Ellen Terry in the new candlelit Sam Wannamaker Playhouse at the Globe. The play is an exploration of Shakespeare's听 female characters, Eileen joined Jenni to talk about the appeal of Shakespeare鈥檚 women and the challenges of a one woman performance.

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As part of their Be Clear On Cancer Campaign, Public Health England have just launched a drive to raise awareness amongst older women about the increased risk they face of getting听. Around 13 500 women over 70 are diagnosed with the disease every year. Jane Garvey听was joined by Dr Maureen Baker, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and by Baroness Dyleth Morgan, Chief Executive of the Breast Cancer Campaign, to talk about why women of this age are more likely to delay going to their GP.

Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has enjoyed huge success across her 20 year music career, with hits like All I Wanna Do, and If It Makes You Happy, and winning nine Grammy鈥檚 along the way. However she鈥檚 also had to deal with unexpected challenges life has thrown at her - her ill-fated romance with Lance Armstrong, and breast cancer and brain tumour diagnoses - and has happily gone on to adopt two young boys as a single mother. She鈥檚 made a new home in Nashville with her sons, near where she once grew up, and has now made an album of country music, which she鈥檚 perhaps aptly titled Feels Like Home. Sheryl Crow joined Jenni Murray to talk about her recent life, how it has inspired her new album, and to play her track Easy, live in the Woman鈥檚 Hour studio.

Sheryl Crow鈥檚 new album is Feels Like Home.