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Singer Songwriter Lianne La Havas debuted in 2011 with her album Is Your Love Big Enough, earning her Ivor Novello and Mercury music prize nominations. It was to lead her to strike up a musical friendship with none other than Prince, who invited her to his Paisley Park complex and on to his Art Official Age album, before coming round to her Leystonstone living room to have tea and hold a much anticipated press conference. And now she’s back with a new album, Blood, which has been inspired by her Greek-Jamaican background, and specifically a trip to uncover her mother’s family roots in Jamaica. Lianne La Havas joins Emma Barnett to perform her single What You Don’t Do, and to talk Prince, Jamaica, musical inspirations, and being a young woman in music.

Lianne’s new album, Blood, is out now on the Warner label.

Ageism is the discrimination of someone based on their age – it can impact confidence, job prospects, financial situation and quality of life. Traditionally it has been seen as a problem older people face at work but can it happen to younger people too? Emma is joined by Heather McGregor, also known as the columnist and TV presenter Mrs Moneypenny, and entrepreneur Emma Sinclair to find out if being younger, or indeed just looking younger, can hinder your success at work.

Jo McMillan’s novel, Motherland, is about Jess - a young girl growing up in the Midlands in the 1970’s as the only teenage Communist in town.  It’s a tale of trying to sell the Morning Star in the shopping centre on a Saturday morning, joining the Young Communist League and travelling to East Germany when her mother is invited to teach at a summer school there.  In reality, Jo is indeed the daughter of a Communist mother and many of the episodes in the book – including the trips to 1970’s East Germany – actually happened to her.  Emma will be talking to Jo about how fact meets fiction in her book, about how the Fall of the Wall in 1989 led to an estrangement between mother and daughter and how they are now reconciled.

Motherland by Jo McMillan is published by John Murray.

It’s a common sight to see children with snacks, sometimes in the playground after school, or on a journey in the car, or even in the supermarket during the weekly shop, but is it entirely necessary to feed our kids snacks, or should three meals a day suffice? And does snacking develop bad eating habits in later life?

This month Paulette Brown becomes the first  woman of colour to lead the American Bar Association. With nearly 400,000 members it is one of the largest voluntary professional membership organisations in the world.

During her legal career she’s promoted diversity in the workplace, been in-house counsel to a number of Fortune 500 companies, a municipal court judge and in private practice has focused on labour and employment and commercial litigation.  In a profession where only seven percent of black and ethnic minority people are partners, and just two percent are women, Paulette will focus her presidency on raising awareness about implicit bias in law offices, the legal system and American society. Emma asked Paulette why she thinks such a disproportionate number of black and Latino people get caught up in the criminal justice system or end up in prison.