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Mindfulness is in the news. Ruby Wax and Julie Myerson have sworn to its efficacy in helping them with depression and anxiety.聽 But mindfulness programmes aren鈥檛 just being used within mental health.聽 Similar interventions are taking place in education, criminal justice and the workplace. This year over 70 MPs and Peers attended mindfulness classes and events in Parliament and this month sees the launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness.聽 So what is mindfulness and why are policy makers so interested in it? Jane talks to Lisa whose life has been transformed by mindfulness, to one of the chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Mindfulness, MP Tracey Crouch and to Rebecca Crane, director of the at Bangor University.聽聽

From online abuse hurled at women in the public eye to the sexually explicit portrayal of women in pop videos and rape jokes, are we seeing the rise of a culture in which casual and deliberate misogyny are increasingly accepted? And what lies behind the way in which some men seem to think they have the freedom, and the right, to speak about and portray women in a derogatory or even abusive way? Jane talks to Kirsty Wark about her new documentary which examines what鈥檚 happening, the impact its having and what we should do about it? 聽

聽Blurred Lines: The New Battle of the Sexes is on 麻豆社2 at 9.30 pm on Thursday 8th May.聽

Game-changer 聽is in the top three of Woman鈥檚 Hour鈥檚 Power List, recognised by judges for her work as a leading clinical geneticist. She joins Jane Garvey to talk about breast and ovarian cancer, and why she鈥檚 passionate about the benefits of genetic-testing for women who develop these cancers when it comes to diagnosing the cause and treatment. As well as being head of the Division of Genetics and Epidemiology at the and head of the Cancer Genetics Clinical Unit at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, she鈥檚 also a singer songwriter - we鈥檒l get a glimpse into her parallel career.

For a few weeks in August 2006 Molly Campbell, a Scottish schoolgirl and her family were front page news. The twelve year old girl was taken from her home in the Outer Hebrides to her father鈥檚 home in Pakistan without her mother鈥檚 consent.

Her mother Louise immediately called the police to say that her daughter had been kidnapped. Meanwhile TV cameras filmed Molly in Lahore, Pakistan, calling her mum to say that she was happy to live with her father and that her name was now Misbah.

The media quickly latched on to the story. The headlines read: 鈥淕irl snatched from school gates鈥�; 鈥淔ears Grow for kidnap bride鈥�; 鈥淔undamental clash of two cultures. If it was a movie it would be a blockbuster鈥�.

In 2008, playwright Sudha Bhuchar travelled to Lahore from London to meet and interview Molly and her father. She then flew to the Isle of Lewis to interview Molly鈥檚 mother Louise.聽

The result is 鈥� a play based on transcripts of interviews with Molly and her parents that tells the story behind the headlines. The play reveals a cross-cultural love story and the eventual breakdown of a marriage and ensuing custody battle.

Jane Garvey is joined by playwright Sudha Bhuchar and mother and daughter Molly and Louise to reflect on the play and life since they were reunited in 2011.

鈥樷�櫬爄s at the , London, from 30 April until 24 May, and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow from 29 to 31 May.