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Courtney Love is back with a new single and will be touring Britain next month. Since her band, Hole first came to fame in the early 1990鈥檚, Courtney Love has been a controversial and striking figure. She鈥檚 known, of course, as the widow of Nirvana鈥檚 Kurt Cobain. But as she approaches 50, has the former wild child grown up? She talks to Jane about her life, her music and what's听next.听

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Courtney Love鈥檚 UK tour opens on May 11th at the Shepherds Bush Empire and continues to May 20th.听This will be her first British tour since 2010.听

Lauren Owen鈥檚 debut novel The Quick is a Gothic romp through Victorian London, sinister gentlemen鈥檚 clubs and a decaying Yorkshire manor house.听 The twenty-eight year old writer, who has received accolades from Hilary Mantel and Kate Atkinson, spent her teenage years honing her skills on Harry Potter fan fiction sites and joins Jane to talk about her fascination with the supernatural.

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The Quick is out on Thursday 3rd April and is published by Jonathan Cape.

听Pauline Oliveros is an American improvisor, accordionist and composer who is considered a pioneer of electronic classical music in 20th century America. At 81 years old, her career spans some fifty years of boundary breaking music-making, and she听has been听the recipient of numerous awards. This evening she will听perform a real-time improvised performance linking musicians in Stanford (California), Troy (New York) and Montreal. This will be the first performance of this kind in the UK at the听Birmingham Conservatoire.

The performance forms part of : Extraordinary Music from Downtown New York & Birmingham, a major festival of music presented by Birmingham Conservatoire and Third Ear.

As Britain鈥檚 only female Prime Minister, Baroness Thatcher who died nearly a year ago, achieved a record that looks unlikely to be beaten in the near future. But was she a political game changer? Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston and Labour activist and commentator Emma Burnell join Jane Garvey to talk about how far Margaret Thatcher altered the political landscape. With the reveal of just a week away, they鈥檒l also discuss who鈥檚 doing what to game change politics today, not just to get more women elected but who鈥檚 helping foster a political culture that people really want to engage with.