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Breakfast and after-school clubs allow parents to work but are they good for children and families? Catherine Carr has been to a school offering wraparound care to talk to staff and pupils. And, journalist and writer Zoe Williams and Nansi Ellis from the join Jane Garvey to discuss the pros and cons of a school day which starts at before breakfast and ends at six pm.

Keira Knightley has swapped corsets for guitars, as she moves from costume drama to her latest role as a wannabe pop star in New York in rom-com film Begin Again. And in her personal life too, she mixes film and music, having recently married James Righton of the band the Klaxons. SheÌýspeaks toÌýJaneÌýabout singing on screen, dodging papparazzi, and her marriage in France last summer.

Begin Again is released on 11 July

As part of our series, we look at the role of empathy.Ìý There’s plenty of research indicating that being empathetic and altruistic is good for our mental health.Ìý But what exactly is empathy? Are we all capable of experiencing it and is it always a good thing?ÌýAnd is it possible to learn to be more empathetic? Graham Music, child and adolescent psychotherapist and author of a The Good Life: Wellbeing and the New Science of Altruism, Selfishness and Immorality, and writer , author of The Empathy Exams, join Jane in the studio.

The Good Life: Wellbeing and the new science of altruism, selfishness and immorality by Graham Music is published by Routledge.

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Over 30,000 women die from coronary heart disease each year and according to the figures from the Office for National Statistics it’s the biggest killer of women between 65-79, killing nearly three times as many women as breast cancer. Evidence suggests that high cholesterol is linked to a risk of heart disease and that cutting down on fatty foods can help lower the risk of heartÌýdisease and strokes. But in a new bookÌý ‘Eat your way to lower cholesterol’, Dr Laura Corr, consultant cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospital, says that creating a healthy diet that lowers cholesterol is more about adding the right foods to your diet than cutting out foods and that the latestÌýstudies have identified six food-types we should be eating more of. But what is the scientific evidence behind this and can you actually lower your cholesterol through eating more of certain foods?

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Ìýnew draft guidelines

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