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Millions of women use the contraceptive pill at some point in their life time.ÌýFor many it’s a liberation, a convenient and effective way of managing one’s fertility. It can also be helpful in other ways -Ìýskin conditions can improve, premenstrual tension reduce and periods become less painful.Ìý However, all women react individually to different hormonal preparation and for some women taking the wrong pill can be disastrous when it comes to mood swings.ÌýIt was many years before the author and broadcaster Alice Roberts realised she didn’t suit the pill she was on. She and Peter Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol, join Emma Barnett to discuss women’s hormonal make up and how it interacts with the birth control pill.

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In the new film Welcome to New York, Jacqueline Bisset plays the long-suffering wife of a powerful adulterous French businessman - a plot allegedly based on the allegations of sexual assault brought against Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Emma talks to Jacqueline about marriage, infidelity and the sex lives of older women.

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Welcome to New York opens in UK cinemas this Friday.

Why is crowdfunding proving successful for women? Woman’s Hour talks to Anastasia Emmanuel from Indiegogo to ask what this relatively novel way of financing a new business idea, a creative project or a ‘not for profit’ enterprise has to offer.

Dido Harding has been theÌýCEO of Talk Talk Group for just over fourÌýyears.ÌýShe’s the only woman to appear on both our 2013 Powerlist and on the 2014Ìý Game Changers list.ÌýEmma Barnett, chair of the judging panel, said she was chosen because she's taken the leadÌýas head of an internet provider in championing not only porn filters but the blocking of online sites that promote suicide and self harm.ÌýEmma talks to her about how she’s working with other providers and government to promote a safer experience online.

Last year the civil rights activist , best known as Assata Shakur,Ìýbecame the FBI’s most wanted woman. She was a leading figure in the 70s Black Liberation Army - a militant arm of the Civil Rights movement – and in 1977 she was given life for the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. Two years after her conviction she escaped and fled to Cuba where she received political asylum. Why is this woman, who is now in her 60s and living in exile in Cuba, the most wanted woman in America? Her autobiography, Assata,Ìýwill be reissued onÌý21 August.ÌýEmma is joined by the Guardian Journalist and writer, , to discuss the events surrounding her conviction, escape, and exile, and the state of civil rights in America today.

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Assata: An Autobiography is published by Zed Books