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Do you, as a daughter, have a good, bad or guilty relationship with your mother? Do you sometimes wonder how other women manage to navigate this complex, sometimes frustrating and joyous relationship鈥� and want to improve your own? Irish Times columnist Roisin Ingle and confidence expert Natasha Fennell got together to form 鈥淭he Daughterhood,鈥� a group of women who met monthly to discuss how they got on with their mothers and to work out a strategy for improving or at least accepting their individual circumstances. They join Jenni to discuss what they found.聽

Another in our series exploring parenting in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays. Shakespeare is especially exercised by the father daughter relationship, which he often depicts as problematical.聽 We look at two plays which feature compliant daughters and controlling fathers. Judi Herman talks to the actors playing these roles in current productions of Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing; and to Pippa Guard, lecturer in Drama and English at Greenwich University.聽 Hamlet is currently at the New Theatre, Cardiff in a production by Theatr Clwyd;聽 Much Ado About Nothing, or Love鈥檚 Labours Won, as it鈥檚 also called, is at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford.

Theatre Clwyd鈥檚 Hamlet聽is at the New Theatre Cardiff聽to 14 March.

Much Ado about Nothing, or Love鈥檚 Labours Won is at the to 14 March, with encore screenings in

The extraordinary activist, Oby Ezekwesili, who started the campaign to rescue more than 200 Chibok girls who were abducted by Boko Haram in April 2014, arrived in London from Nigeria on Saturday 7th March to speak at the WOW Festival at London鈥檚 Southbank Centre. Oby joined Jane in the Woman鈥檚 Hour glass box at WOW to highlight that the abducted girls are still missing and the world must not move on until they are home. Oby also explains why she refuses to give up and why she believes all girls have the right to an education.

Over the last few months we鈥檝e been looking at the efforts of the political parties in Great Britain to get more women to stand - and for the final聽installment聽in the series we turn to the Scottish National Party. At the moment they have six MPs 鈥� one of whom is a woman and currently 21 of the 59 candidates who鈥檝e been selected are women. So, might we see the party sending more women to Westminster? Today we hear women candidates from the SNP talk about what their party has been doing to help get them, and others, elected to Westminster聽聽