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Figures just released by the charity indicate that 72% of mothers with disabled children have cut back or given up work because of childcare problems.Ìý They also reveal that nearly a third of families with disabled children pay eight times more for childcare than families without disabled children.Ìý So with escalating childcare costs and fewer employment opportunities, what can be done to help parents with disabled children?Ìý Jane talks toÌýContact aÌýFamily'sÌýChief Executive Amanda Batten about the impact of these figures on families

A new breed of book is becoming increasingly popular: advice manuals written by men for men.Ìý Their aim: to instruct the male of the species on how to be a good parent, how to be the best husband, what to do when your wife gives birth.Ìý So what kind of advice do men need?Ìý How do men like to receive information?Ìý How necessary is it to dress up helpful hints and facts with humour or is it better to disguise them altogether as though they are a car or army training manual?Ìý Journalist ,Ìý DaddyNatal teacher Dean Beaumont and J. Haynes Chair of Haynes Manuals discuss.

Tim Dowling, How to be a Husband was published onÌý5th June 2014 by Fourth Estate.

The Home Secretary was number two on last year’s Woman’s Hour Power List, placed behind the Queen. But in the last week she has been under pressure. Following a row with the Education Secretary over extremism in schools, she lost her special adviser who resigned last weekend and she faces questions from the Home Affairs Select Committee. Meanwhile, Theresa May is pushing ahead with reform of the police service. So, what does the future look like for the most powerful woman in British politics – and could she still be a potential leader of her party? Jane talks to Isabel Hardman, Assistant editor of The Spectator and Telegraph columnist.ÌýÌý

A treat from our an interview with singer-songwriter Carly Simon from 1999. The first interview she'd given following her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer.

Until 1946 womenÌýcouldn'tÌýapply for a job in the British Diplomatic Service.ÌýUntil 1973 they had to resign if they got married.Ìý The historian joins Jenni to talk about the rise of women in the Foreign Office.Ìý Were women really absent from diplomacy before the late 1940s?Ìý Who were the key women to join up after the war?Ìý How did they survive in what had been an exclusively masculine profession? ÌýÌý