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The Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore has said he鈥檚 sorry after inappropriate emails he wrote were leaked to a Sunday newspaper by a former PA.听In public Scudamore is a huge supporter of women鈥檚 football, but the emails reveal him to have attitudes towards women that might be best described in a family show as 鈥渆xceedingly old fashioned鈥� 鈥� and many would consider them extremely offensive.听He discussed 'female irrationality', and he and another man joked about a woman colleague they nicknamed Edna.听Laura Williamson, the sports writer for the Daily Mail, joins Jane to discuss.

Benjamin Brooks-Dutton鈥檚 wife was knocked down and killed by a car in North West London as he walked with her, pushing their two year old son in his buggy. Being left as a widower to raise their son, Ben started a blog to encourage others to open up about their grief. It proved hugely popular. He has now written a book about how he and Jackson have coped since Desreen鈥檚 death. Ben joins Jane to explain the importance of fostering memories for a child who has lost their parent at an early age.

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It鈥檚 Not Raining, Daddy, It鈥檚 Happy, is published by Hodder and Stoughton

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In 1918, Annie May Martin was a telegraphist working in France. Her role with the Women鈥檚 Army Auxiliary Corps was to pass messages in morse code between front line troops and London. In an archive interview, she looks back on her life as a signaller, why they were called the 鈥榖lue and white angels,鈥� and remembers the hostility she experienced at the hands of French civilians. Her reflections are included in IWM鈥檚 ,听launched today to create a digital memorial to mark the lives of more than听eight million people in WWI. Project Manager Melanie Donnelly joins Jane Garvey to talk about the scale of the task ahead.

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Image: WWI telegraphists in France.听漏 IWM (Q 7972)

According to the National Autistic Society, around 700 000 people in the UK have autism. That鈥檚听one person in every hundred. Many people on the spectrum experience difficulty getting a diagnosis, but for women in particular autism is often overlooked or diagnosed late. Dr Wendy Lawson is one such case. At school Wendy was considered to be intellectually disabled, and 鈥榓lmost incapable of doing as she is told鈥�. In her teens, she was misdiagnosed as schizophrenic. The label stuck for more than 25 years, until she was diagnosed in 1994 as having high-functioning autism. Since then she has dedicated her life to helping others understand autism through her academic research, writing, and talks.听She talks to Jane about her misdiagnosis, and why autism is so often under-diagnosed in females.

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The play , about the life of novelist and poet听Stevie Smith, is currently running in Chichester, with Zoe Wanamaker playing the unconventional, droll, melancholic, and hugely talented writer.听So who was Stevie Smith? When she died in 1971 she was one of the 20th Century鈥檚 most popular poets. She鈥檚 known for putting the story of her life into her poems and prose, but she鈥檚 also celebrated for her intrigue, satire, and playfulness. Her literary admirers are numerous. Two of them - poet Catherine Smith, and Dr Will May, Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton and the Editor of the Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith, to be published later in the year - join Jane in the studio.

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Stevie听runs at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester from 24 April to 24 May