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According to a recent survey by Brit Mums, Britain’s biggest collective of parent bloggers, a record number of people in the UK are blogging about their children. 50% of so-called ‘mumbloggers’ have children aged 2 or under and about 5% of parenting blogs are now written by dads. Tim Atkinson, a stay-at-home Dad who writes the award-winning blog and Alice Harold, whose blog ,Ìý join Jane Garvey to discuss why they blog, whether they earn any money from it and how they cope with the competitive world of parent blogging.

On Friday the Home Secretary Theresa May announced thatÌýa review is to be carried out into the way police in England and Wales deal with cases of domestic violence.ÌýThis follows the murders of Clare Wood and Maria Stubbings who were both killed by former partners.ÌýNeither woman was aware that their partners had a history of violence against women. About two women a week die from domestic violence in England and Wales. So what effect will this review have?ÌýHeather Harvey, Research and Development Manager at the domestic violence charity Eaves joins Jane in the studio.Ìý

Campaigners in France are calling for more women to be represented in the Pantheon. It is the final resting place for France’s most celebrated citizens such as Voltaire, Rousseau and Zola but the only woman to be included for her achievements is Marie Curie. Burial in the Pantheon is only allowed by a parliamentary act for "National Heroes" and the campaign group (Dare to be a Feminist) has taken to social media to lobby French President Francois Hollande to redress the balance. With ÌýDr Hanna Diamond,ÌýReader in French History at the University of Bath and campaigner from Osez le Feminisme Anne-cécile Mailfert.

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18 year old Gabrielle Turnquest is the youngest person to be called to the bar in 600 years. The average age is 27.ÌýThough she is Britain’s youngest barrister she was born in the US, where she started her first degree at the age of 14. Graduating two years later on the day she also graduated from high school, she decided to study law in the UK. Jane speaks toÌýGabrielle and her mother, Patrice,Ìýa lawyer from the Bahamas.

Eleanor Catton’s new novel, The Luminaries, has been long listed for the Man Booker Prize.ÌýÌý Set in 1860s during one of the New Zealand gold rushes in the hastily thrown up town of Hokitika, it tells a huge and complex story that opens with twelve local men meeting in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes.ÌýA wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life and an enormous sum of money has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk.Ìý Eleanor Catton’s first novel, The Rehearsal, about a sex scandal at a New Zealand high school, won a significant number of nominations and prizes.ÌýIn this, her second novel, she has shifted gear entirely to produce a doorstopper of a novel that reads like a Victorian sensation novel, transplanted to New Zealand. She joins Jane in the studio.

ÌýThe Luminaries by Eleanor Catton is published by Granta.