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Actress Claire Goose joins Jane to talk about starring in a brand new 2 part thriller ‘Undeniable’ which starts this evening.Once voted one of FHM’s top 100 sexiest women, the actress is now back in the acting saddle after taking a career break to have her children.ÌýClaire plays Jane Phillips, a woman who recognises her mother’s murderer- 23 years after the crime.

Her rise to fameÌýbegan as nurse Tina Seabrook in Casualty when she was just 22 and actingÌýher credits include ‘Waking the Dead’ and playing John Simm’s lover in acclaimed thriller ‘Exile.’ÌýClaire joins Jane to discussÌýwhether she stillÌýminds being associated with those ‘lad’s mag’ pictures and how cancer scares change her life?

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has apologised "unreservedly" to MPs for her handling of an inquiry that ordered her to repay £5,800 in expenses, so why is the controversy rumbling on?Ìý We discuss the fall out with Isabel Hardman, assistant editor of The Spectator and with Helen Lewis, deputy editor of The New Statesman.

has been searching for the women who are changing the way power operates in Britain today.Ìý Building on Woman’s Hour’s inaugural Power List which named the 100 most powerful women in the country, this year’s list will shine a spotlight on ‘Game Changers’.Ìý A panel of judges have been deliberating and have chosen a ranked list of the top ten most powerful game changing women whose influence is to be felt in Britain today.Ìý The results will be announced on Wednesday 9 April to coincide with a special edition of Woman’s Hour live from the Â鶹Éç Radio Theatre.Ìý To discuss the selection process Jane is joined by Emma Barnett, Chair of Judges and The Telegraph Women’s Editor, and by judge and non-executive director of the Football Association, Heather Rabbatts.Ìý

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, writer, translator and activist from Tamil Nadu in India.Ìý She has now published her first novel, The Gypsy Goddess, set in 1968 about a true-life massacre. The novel tells the story ofÌý landless villagers,Ìý communist activists andÌý paddy owners and the events which led to the terrible massacre that killed 42 men, women and children from the village of Kilvenman in Tamil Nadu.Ìý Meena joins Jane in the studio to talk about her passion for activism and poetry and how novel writing fits into the mix.Ìý

Malaria claims the life of a child every minute, and is a leading cause of death and poverty in Africa.Ìý Biyi Bandele’s screen adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun, a love story starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, opens in cinemas on Friday.ÌýÌý Filming took place on location in Nigeria, which has a high burden of malaria, with 500 children dying every day.Ìý Many of the cast and crew got malaria during the filming in Calabar.Ìý On World Health Day, Jane is joined by Heather Rabbatts, Patron of to discuss the problem and treatment programmes.

Clarification: Malaria is a vector-borne disease which is transmitted by mosquitoes, and not through the air as is stated at one point during the interview