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Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders talks to Jenni about her life and career as a leading woman in music as she finally goes solo after 35 years with a new album, Stockholm.

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Stockholm is out now on the Caroline label,听and includes the new single Down The Wrong Way

The forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs examines bones for a living, helping to find out who a person was and the cause of death.听Kathy has testified at the UN Tribunal on Genocide in Rwanda, helped exhume a mass grave in Guatemala, and assisted with identifying remains found at Ground Zero.听She is also a best-selling author and her main character is like herself - a forensic anthropologist. She joins Jenni to talk about her latest novel, Bones Never Lie.

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Bones Never Lie by Kathy Reichs is published by William Heinemann

A released today by the International Rescue Committee based on conversations with over 70 000听 Syrian female refugees documents the relentless cycle of sexual violence, harassment, and early or forced marriage faced by women and girls inside Syria and neighbouring countries, such as Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq. The report includes personal testimony from the women, and calls for meaningful action over rhetoric from the international community, both for protection of women and听support for survivors. Jenni is joined by Melanie Megevand, Women's Protection & Empowerment Advisor at the who has been working on the ground with the refugees.

Based on Laura Wade鈥檚 play Posh, the film The Riot Club centres around an all-male elite drinking society at Oxford University who not only violently destroy a country pub for kicks, but also, it is implied, go on to run the country.听Parallels have been drawn between the fictional Riot Club and the infamous Bullingdon Club which claims Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne, and London Mayor Boris Johnson as alumni.听 So to what extent do these all-male clubs and societies exist to benefit the already rich and established members of society? And can, and should, women compete by establishing their own networks and societies?听Jenni is joined by journalist and Oxford University graduate Tanya Gold, and by Julia Hobsbawm who runs the networking business Editorial Intelligence and is Visiting Professor in Networking at two business schools.

This Saturday in Glasgow a remembrance service will be taking place for anyone who鈥檚 lost a baby through miscarriage or stillbirth.听It鈥檚 one in a series of services that will be taking place across the country this autumn called , set up by Zoe and Andy Clark-Coates. Although they now have two young children, their own experience of miscarriage has led them to organise these services for parents who鈥檝e experienced similar feelings of grief but have had no way of publicly acknowledging their loss.听Reporter Fiona听Clampin听went along to the first service in Exeter Cathedral.