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21 year old singer and songwriter Ella Eyre made waves last year, featuring on the and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sound Of shortlists, and winning Best Newcomer at the and a with on their number one single . As she now gets ready to release her debut solo album, Feline, at the end of this month, she joins Jane Garvey to talk about making in the music industry at such a young age, and to perform her track Even If, live in the studio.

Ella Eyre’s debut album Feline is released on 28 August on Virgin EMI. Her single Good Times featuring Sigma is out on 21 August, and she goes out on a headline UK tour in November.

The next in the series in which Suzi Godson the Times relationship columnist speaks to men from their twenties to their eighties about their experiences.  Today, Simon who is 56 with two young children under 5 and is a father of two children in their twenties from his first marriage.  He was a career army officer for 36 years and is now a management consultant.  He reflects on being an older father and  the experience of his  second wife’s two miscarriages.  Suzi then joins Jane in the studio to explore some of the issues raised.

Finding appropriate and affordable childcare is a struggle at the best of times, but what happens when you work unpredictable hours? Perhaps you’re on night shifts or are freelance so don’t work the same days each week.  What are you supposed to do? We talk to Ellen Broome from the Family and Childcare Trust about this longstanding problem facing parents and if there’s any reason to hope for greater provision for ‘wraparound’ childcare in the future.