Family Secret of Nobel Prize Winner

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Sir Paul Nurse is one of Britain's best known scientists. He is a geneticist and president of the Royal Society. In 2001, he won a Nobel prize for his discoveries about how cells divide and multiply, but in 2007 he made a shocking discovery about his own genetics - a secret that had remained hidden for over 50 years. Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz, the twin daughters of a legendary Buena Vista Social Club percussionist, talk about forming their own singing sister act, known as Ibeyi. The Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy on discovering feminism as a teenager living in Saudi Arabia and why the Middle East needs a sexual revolution. She talks to Matthew Bannister about her new book Headscarves and Hymens. (Photo: Sir Paul Nurse)