03/02/2011

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Presented by Jenni Murray. Journalist and writer Allison Pearson on why she described depression as the curse of the current generation, and how her novel "I Don't Know How She Does It" is being made into a Hollywood movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Christina Hendricks. Green Party leader and MP Caroline Lucas will discuss her attempts to "drag Westminster into the 21st century" and shake-off the image of the UK's parliament as "an old boys' club". We ask the former MEP what lessons the mother of parliaments could learn from its European cousin. From the sometime banned 1930's play The Children's Hour - now showing in the West End - to the recent film The Kids Are Alright, Woman's Hour looks at how and if the portrayal of lesbian women on stage and screen has changed over the last eighty years. Trish Gibson holds up a light to the forgotten work of landscape architect Brenda Colvin and how it helped shape the Britain we see today.