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The NHS at 70: What does the future look like for women working in the health service? How can more women enter senior roles? What work needs to be done to close the gender pay gap, which means female NHS employees earn on average 23% less than men?

Angela Merkel remains in office. In her thirteenth year as Chancellor she's just struck another deal with her coalition partner to cut migration into Germany. But are their wider lessons in her political survival? Commentators and business consultants have argued that male leaders seem to find it easier to shake off their failures, while women in the top job are more likely to be ousted than men. So what, if anything, can Angela Merkel teach women leaders?

Why do we need more female songwriters in the music industry? Plus Deborah Alma the Emergency Poet, on the healing properties of poems, #metoo and her first full collection of poetry 'Dirty Laundry'.

Presenter Jenni Murray
Producer Beverley Purcell.