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Folk singer,听 Cara Dillon, grew up in a musical family in Dungiven, Northern Ireland. Immersed in the rich musical traditions of folk听she began singing from an early age, winning the All Ireland Traditional Singing competition by the time she was 14 years old.听 She has risen to become one of the finest interpreters of traditional Irish song anywhere in the world. Q Magazine听described her as 鈥淨uite possibly the world鈥檚 most beautiful female voice鈥︹��. Together with her husband and musical partner, Sam Lakeman she鈥檚 known for mixing both the traditional and contemporary in her song writing.听 Her solo albums have won many awards including Radio 2鈥檚 folk album of the year.听听 Cara is currently touring the UK and joins us to sing live from her latest album 鈥淎 Thousand Hearts鈥�.听听

Joanne and Dan Thompson鈥檚 daughter Millie tragically died in a choking incident at a nursery in October 2012. Following Millie鈥檚 death they set up Millie's Trust to press for a change in the law so all nursery staff will have mandatory training in paediatric first aid. The trust also provides paediatric first aid training for parents and nursery professionals. Joanne is campaigning for better training and her to the Department for Education has gained more than 100,000 signatures and will be considered for debate by the Backbench Business Committee. Joanne joins Jenni along with Melanie Pilcher, policy and standards manager at Pre-school Learning Alliance.

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This week, 13 Indian women have died and many others are believed to be in a critical condition following botched surgery at a government-run sterilisation camp. The Indian government has long been concerned with the growing size of the country鈥檚 population, which the UN estimates will be bigger than China鈥檚 by 2030 and India. In some parts of the country, women have been paid to be sterilised and health officials are given incentives to reach sterilisation targets. Durring the 1970s, there was a period when men were forced to have vasectomies 鈥� in a contraversial programme that led to the downfall of Mrs Gandhi鈥檚 government in 1977. Jenni talks to Dr Rebecca Williams at Exeter University who has studied the history of population control programmes in post-colonial India.

Last month, a blue plaque honouring the first female police officer with the power of arrest was unveiled in the Lincolnshire town where she worked. Midwife Edith Smith moved to Grantham in 1915 to help tackle prostitution after the billeting of 14,000 soldiers to the area at the beginning of World War One. She resigned from the force in 1918 and died five years later. Her blue plaque has been placed on the wall of the old town police station by the Grantham Civic Society. To discuss the role of the first police women and how those duties have changed since those early years, Jenni is joined by historian Dr Louise Jackson from Edinburgh University and by Jane Antrobus - a former Detective Chief Superintendent from the Greater Manchester Police.

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This week, two leading breast cancer charities announced that they intend to merge next spring. When Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer combine, they will become the largest dedicated breast cancer research charity in the UK. Jenni talks to Baroness Delyth Morgan 鈥� currently the Chief Executive of Breast Cancer听 Campaign 鈥� about the merger. How will it benefit research into breast cancer and does 鈥榖igger鈥� necessarily mean 鈥榖etter鈥�?