Jeanette Winterson; UK women joining IS; Family annihilation; Crosswords

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Jeanette Winterson's 1985 novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, is a semi-autobiographical account of a young girl discovering her sexuality, and the beginning of her search to be herself. Jeanette Winterson talks to Jenni Murray about her ground breaking novel and its place in women's writing almost thirty years after its publication. A growing number of British Muslim women are travelling to Syria to join Islamic State (IS). Some are known to have married Jihadist fighters, who are targeting and radicalising young women, some only teenagers, via the internet. But what is motivating these young women to travel to Syria and how can the UK stop them being recruited by the extremists? Police drama 'Craven' returns to Woman's Hour next week. DCI Sue Craven, played by Maxine Peake, is called to a house in Manchester where three children have been found dead in their beds. Amelia Bullmore, who wrote the series, joins Jenni Murray along with Dr Elizabeth Yardley, Reader in Criminology at Birmingham City University, to discuss family annihilation. Crossword culture has been male-dominated for years. Now David Steinberg, a seventeen-year-old puzzle wunderkind has spoken out against the gender bias - which he says has steadily worsened in the past two decades. So why are fewer women than ever making it as crossword compilers?