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The Oscars are later this month and one contender is听 鈥淏easts of the Southern Wild鈥�. It is about a young girl forced to fend for herself when her father becomes ill and dies and later dies.听 Quvenzhan茅 Wallis, 听who plays that child,听 is the youngest person ever to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance.听 So how does a child cope when a parent or both parents die? 听Does it lead to more self assurance and independence or听 anger over their loss of childhood and the burden of responsibility?听Jenni Murray speaks to seventeen year old Briar Dickey who lost her mum when she was two and her father when she was five. They are joined by Dawn Hewitt from the child bereavement service, .

Leading forensic anthropologist, Professor Sue Black听is director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at Dundee University. Her forensic expertise has been crucial to a number of high-profile criminal cases, including the conviction of Scotland鈥檚 largest paedophile ring. 听In 1999 she headed the British Forensic Team鈥檚 exhumation of mass graves in Kosovo and was awarded the OBE for her work there. This week she was named as one of the top 100 Powerful Women in the UK on the .听听

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With the Italian general election just two weeks away Jenni is joined by Daniela Del Boca, Professor of Economics at the University of Turin and by Andrea Vogt, a journalist and author based in Bologna, to discuss how Italian women have fared under the Monti government鈥檚 austerity cuts and who they might vote for in the next election?

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The Freemasons have听 not always been seen as inclusive of women, 听but this is far from the image that one of their organisations wants to give. In fact the International Order of Freemasonry for Men and Women has launched a recruitment drive aimed especially at women. 听They are a separate 听from the United Grand Lodge of England which only has male members and was the first Freemason organisation to be set up.听 Jenni Murray is joined by Sandra Kanfer Clarke 鈥� from The International Order of Co-Freemasonry听and Martin Short, author of the Inside the Brotherhood