10/10/2014

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It's one of the most enduring and celebrated dance partnerships of recent time. Now, to mark their fortieth year of working together, ice dance champions Torvill and Dean have co-written a second autobiography 'Our Life On Ice'. Jenni talks to Jayne Torvill about what it's like to have more than one 'other half'. Ten years ago Woman's Hour reported on the house in Manchester where Elizabeth Gaskell lived and where she wrote most of her novels. Now as renovations are completed we return to hear how the building has changed. Chores for children, as part of Woman's Hour Chore Wars series Woman's Hour hears from one family as they implement 'cleaning hour'. Jenni also speaks to Jayne Stokes of Family Action, a charity who have offered advice to parents to use domestic tasks as a basis for their children's education and to Telegraph columnist Beverley Turner about what jobs her son and two daughters are willing to do. The UK government is investing £35 million into a new Africa-led movement to end Female Genital Mutilation in one generation. The funding will run until 2019 and represents the largest investment by any government ever into tackling FGM. The campaign called, 'The Girl Generation; Together to End FGM' is launched in Nairobi in Kenya today. Its focus is on ten African countries where it aims to instigate advocacy initiatives which will drive social and behavioural change. Thirty million girls across Africa are estimated to be at risk of FGM over the next decade. Lynne Featherstone, Minister for International Development, and Nimco Ali join Jenni to explain how the money will be used and why they believe it will make a difference.