American aristocrats, trans-racial adoption, female cop duos, and partner or baby - which comes first?

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Presented by Jenni Murray. Filming is well underway for the third series of 'Downton Abbey' in which Shirley Maclaine will be appearing in the new role of Lady Grantham's mother. But who were the real life American women who crossed The Atlantic to marry an English Lord? From Jennie Jerome to Nancy Astor, we explore the 'dollar princesses' and how the tradition of the anglo-american romance continues in high places to this day. In order to get more children out of care quicker, the government wants to make trans-racial adoption easier but is it right to do so? Is a loving adoptive family all that any child needs or should the principle of always trying to match child-parent ethnicity be safeguarded when it comes to adoption? We ask what adoptees themselves think including the poet Jackie Kay. As Scott and Bailey, Manchester's very own Cagney & Lacey, returns to screen, we explore the new appetite to watch female detectives in TV crime drama. And baby or partner - who comes first in terms of time and emotional energy?