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The England women's cricket team will attempt to win three Ashes series in a row, starting with the opening One Day International match at Taunton today. Former England captain Clare Connor has described it as "the biggest, most-anticipated, high-profile women's series there's ever been.鈥� For the first time ever two fully professional women鈥檚 teams will play against each other.听Jane is joined by Clare Connor, who is now Director of Women鈥檚 Cricket at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

Depression and the menopause: are hormones to blame? How do you know when you鈥檙e peri-menopausal? And how difficult is it to find the right treatment for you? Jane speaks to gynaecologist about why he thinks transdermal estrogens are an under prescribed solution and to psychiatrist Dr Pratibha Nirodi to ask whether their different clinical disciplines could work more closely together to treat depression at this stage of women鈥檚 lives.

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Sarah Moss joins Jane to discuss her new novel Signs for Lost Children.听Although a standalone novel the book picks up where Moss鈥檚 previous work, Bodies of Light, ended. Set in the 1880's it follows Ally and Tom - a newly married couple separated by Tom鈥檚 work in Japan as a lighthouse engineer - as Ally, a doctor, remains in Cornwall working in Truro Asylum. Sarah talks to Jane about the pioneering female doctors of the nineteenth century, why the Victorian asylum might not be as bad as we think, and why she finds the blurred lines between madness and sanity in women endlessly fascinating.

Singer Kanika Kapoor was thrust into the limelight after a song she posted on YouTube was spotted by a famous Bollywood director. She was asked to sing in one of his movie, and the song Baby Doll became one of the biggest blockbuster hits in Bollywood and was downloaded around 50 million times. She has gone onto further success as a Bollywood playback singer and has won many awards. As she prepares to perform at the 麻豆社 Proms Late Night with the 麻豆社 Asian Network, she talks to Jane Garvey about her rise to fame.

Kanika Kapoor, Bollywood playback singer, is performing at 麻豆社 Proms Late Night With鈥� 麻豆社 Asian Network on Wednesday 22 July at 10.15pm at the Royal Albert Hall