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Students who are bullied are less likely to achieve higher grades than those who have never been bullied, according to anti-bullying charity Ditch The Label in a report released this morning. The charity surveyed 3600 young people aged 13 to 18 years old in schools and colleges across the UK. Jenni talks to Lesley Rose about her experience of being bullied at school, and to founder and CEO of Ditch The Label, Liam Hackett.

Dame Stella Rimington became the first female Director General of MI5 and held the position between1992 to 1996. In an interview with Martha Kearney in 1999, Dame Stella reveals how she was recruited into MI5 and how she became a spy. As recent reports that a recruitment campaign to the intelligence services is underway, Professor Christopher Andrew, the Official Historian to MI5, joins Jenni to discuss if women were long thought of as good spies and how the recruitment process to the intelligence service has changed since its early inception.

Samantha Asumadu wants to change the 鈥渦biquity of whiteness鈥� she sees in the media and promote more women of different ethnic backgrounds 鈥� with different skin colours, body types, views, experiences, and opinions. She鈥檚 set up a group called Media Diversity to promote writers, journalists and experts, and this week they have also published a new book on the subject, called Complicit No More. So has the media brought the world a very narrow, very white, idea of what it is to be female? Jenni is joined by Samantha - Founder and Editor of , and by writer Sunny Singh - who has written about the very narrow and white representation of beauty she sees in the media 鈥� to explain the extent of the problem and the changes they would like to see.

Arthur Wing Pinero鈥檚 play, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, is being revived on stage in London for the first time since its original run in 1895. It follows the life of Agnes Ebbsmith - a politically radical woman who wishes to live with her partner Lucas without marrying him. The play examines contemporary debates in Victorian society surrounding the institution of marriage and women鈥檚 rights as being both separate from, and equal to, those of their husbands. It also looks at the idea of the 鈥楴ew Woman鈥� 鈥� a contemporary term used to describe the emerging class of educated, politically active women who wished to be judged on more than just their sexual history. Jenni is joined by Dr Sos Eltis, Fellow of English at Oxford University and expert in Victorian literature.

Today we're meeting the curator of Leeds Castle, Tori Reeve.聽And if you think you've got a lot of bits and pieces stashed away in a loft or that cupboard under the stairs, just imagine what you might find in a castle with a history going back 900 years.聽Tori's job is to look after all the thousands of objects at Leeds Castle 鈥� researching them, making sure they're kept in good condition, and putting them on display. Louise Adamson met up with her to find out more about this massive task.