Royal dresses; Dying your hair; Mindful eating; Older motherhood

This week two of the most powerful women in the London books trade, Dame Gail Rebuck and Victoria Barnsley, stepped down from their posts within 24 hours of each other. Dame Gail will stay at random House as UK chairman, but Victoria Barnsley leaves Harper Collins. Four years ago there were four women heading up British publishing, on Sunday there were three and today there’s one – Ursula Mackenzie at Little Brown. So, what’s going on? Jenni is joined by Victoria Barnsley.

How long can you realistically wait to have a baby? The received wisdom is that 35 is the age at which fertility starts to fall. But there is a growing trend for women to have children later in life. The number of women in their 40s having babies has risen by more than 15% in five years, the biggest rise in any age group, according to NHS statistics published last December. On the other hand private IVF in women over 40 is a growth industry. And fertility treatment on the NHS will be offered to women aged over 40 for the first time, under new NICE guidelines. Jenni is joined by “older mothers” with different opinions on the subject: Claudia Spahr, journalist and author of Right Time Baby, The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood & Kate Garraway, journalist and ambassador for the Get Britain Fertile Campaign, who both had children in their late 30’s and 40s.

NHS: Protect Your Fertility

NICE: updated recommendations

Over the last 20 years journalist Lucy Cavendish has tried every diet going; the Dukan, the Atkins, the South Beach and even the Blood Group diet. But recently she renounced diets in favour of a new way of eating: ‘food mindfulness’. By tuning into her body’s wisdom about what and when to eat Lucy lost half a stone. She joins Jenni along with Sian Porter, Consultant Dietician from the British Dietetic Association to discuss how we can all learn to pay more attention to what we are eating.