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As Philip Larkin said聽'They 鈥榤ess鈥� 聽you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.鈥� A new report from , an organisation that aims to improve social mobility through education, says that four of every ten children are not getting the right parenting to help them succeed in life.聽 They say that not enough babies are forming the right kind of attachment to their parents and they are calling for more support for parents both before and after birth.聽 Jenni speaks to Sophie Moullin, one of the authors of the report, and Judy Williams, a child and adolescent psychotherapist.

The largest ever study in music psychology conducted at Goldsmith鈥檚 University in London has 聽revealed that more men than women recognise the beat 聽accurately.聽 The findings came as a genuine surprise to the research team behind the project .聽 A popularly held 聽聽stereotype聽 of men enjoying themselves 聽down the local disco is聽聽 鈥榙ad dancing鈥� 鈥� it鈥檚 the comic 聽label given to middle aged men whose聽 partners might well 聽prefer they left聽 聽their moves to the groove 聽firmly back at home. 聽Yet, in the light of the new research, could it be many men聽 are capable of being better dancers than they dare think and if so, what鈥檚 holding them back ? Dance psychologist , Peter Lovatt and salsa instructor, Tina Thaiya, discuss with Jenni.

On the 7th March 1939,聽 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, a woman described by Hitler as the 'perfect Nazi woman鈥� came to Britain.聽 As leader of the the leader of the German National Socialist Women's League her visit was at the invitation of聽 Prunella Stack, the head of the Women鈥檚 League of Health and Beauty. On the face of it Gertrud Scholtz-Klink鈥檚 visit was to study 鈥渟ocial conditions鈥�.聽 However it illustrates the often overlooked story of women鈥檚 role in appeasement and their attempts at international reconciliation and peace at any price.聽 Dr Julie V. Gottlieb, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield explains the significance of Gertrud Scholtz-Klink鈥檚 visit to Britain so soon before the outbreak of World War Two.

Despite most countries legislating against gender discrimination, around the world young women do not have the same opportunities as men. As father to two young daughters, 大象传媒 presenter Ros Atkins wants to know how they will be treated differently as they grow up simply because of their gender. What opportunities will they miss out on because they are girls?聽 Ros has made a programme for 大象传媒's Freedom Season and in his programme he meets four teenage girls - all 15 or 16 - growing up in Iceland, Jordan, the UK and Lesotho.