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Columnist and political interviewer Jackie Ashley has returned to work after caring for her husband Andrew Marr when he suffered a stroke earlier this year. With a growing number of unpaid carers in the UK, the majority of them women, Jackie will be discussing the impact of a caring role on a woman鈥檚 career and why a form of 鈥渃arers leave鈥� might be needed in the world of employment.

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In his inauguration speech on Sunday, the new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani听sparked hope for civilians by promising to advance women鈥檚 rights听and reduce government interference in everyday life. How far will he be able to keep his promises, whilst not alienating the conservative factions, and what are the challenges he will face?

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The new series of , where budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi- millionaires, starts this week on 麻豆社 Two. And the show has a new dragon, MBE. We speak to the award winning interior designer about joining the panel of dragons, 听what it takes to succeed in the Den and in business, and how she herself became an entrepreneur at the age of 16.

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The Woman鈥檚 Hour drama next week (12-16th August) is called How To Have A Perfect Marriage听and explores the reaction of a woman who after many years of marriage discovers that her husband is gay. It is semi-autobiographical and听written by Nicholas McInerny. He tells Jenni why he wrote the drama from the wife鈥檚 perspective and about his own experience of telling his wife and family.听And Jenni also hears from Sue about the effect on her when her husband of 22 years told her that he was gay.

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Wallasea Island on Essex鈥檚 east coast is the beautiful but desolate site of a huge conservation scheme, where the RSPB, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, has one of its landmark wild coastline projects. Performance artist is the Artist in Residence for, but her artwork is not something you can look at, a painting or a sculpture. Caroline鈥檚 artwork is live and ongoing with workshops and performances all about at finding your 鈥渋nner bird鈥�. Judi Herman joined a workshop on the windswept island.

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