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The songwriter and pianist Kate Garner is the daughter of Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave fame. Chas鈥檚 mother, Daisy, recorded a special tribute to the Queen for the silver jubilee back in 1977. But to celebrate the Queen鈥檚 Platinum Jubilee, Kate has decided to continue the family tradition and has penned her own song called Platinum Queen. She performs live and tells Nuala McGovern how her song prompted a response from the Queen herself.

For the first time this year the Women鈥檚 FA Cup Final was played on the same weekend as the men鈥檚 and matches are seeing record attendance levels. Despite all this success a recent study has found that 86% of players in the Women鈥檚 Super League and Championship wanted or needed clinical support at some point during their playing years. The Lead author of the report, Carly Perry ,from the University of Central Lancashire found that only 50% of clubs represented by participants offered psychological support. She joins us alongside Kelly Lindsey from Lewes FC which is the only club in the world to pay it鈥檚 men and women鈥檚 teams equally.

The Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction has launched a campaign to encourage more men to read novels by women. Why? Because the stats are currently alarming. The research, conducted for Mary Ann Sieghart鈥檚 The Authority Gap, found that of the top 10 bestselling female fiction authors, including Austen, Atwood and Agatha Christie, only 19% of their readers are men. In comparison, for the top 10 bestselling male authors the split in readers is much more even at 55% men and 45% women. In other words, women are prepared to pick up novels by men, but men are much more reluctant to read novels written by women, regardless of the genre. We talk to Kate Mosse a best-selling novelist, playwright and founder director of the Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction.

Jubilee Birthday honours with singer Bonnie Tyler and nuclear engineer Dame Susan Ion and Charlotte Proudman on the fallout from the Heard/Depp libel trial in the USA.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
Studio Engineers: Tim Heffer & Donald McDonald