Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,06 Apr 2011,45 mins

06/04/2011

Woman's Hour

Available for over a year

Jane Garvey presents. She might not have won X-Factor but former supermarket cashier Mary Byrne has beaten Britney Spears and Radiohead with her album "Mine and Yours" to be the highest new entry in this week's chart with her very first album release. Comments by David Willetts, Universities Minister, in connection with the launch of the government's social mobility strategy, that feminism was the single biggest factor that has caused a lack of social mobility in the last four decades. Why do we still struggle to teach our children the facts of life? And travel writer Sara Wheeler.

Programme Website
More episodes