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Monday 25th February is 25 years to the day that serial killer Fred West confessed to the murder of his daughter Heather, and the first set of remains were excavated from 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, crimes for which he and his wife Rose were found guilty. Lucy Partington was one of their victims, an English student in her final year at Exeter University who vanished while waiting for a late-night bus. For twenty years her family didn鈥檛 know what had happened to her. Her sister Marian, author of 'If You Sit Very Still' speaks to Jane about her journey from 鈥渕urderous rage鈥� towards her sister鈥檚 killers, to a vow she made to bring something positive out of Lucy鈥檚 death.

Menopause and the workplace: What are employers doing to help women with menopausal symptoms? We hear from Deborah Garlick founder of the over 40鈥檚 website, Henpicked.

Emma Morgan鈥檚 debut novel, 'A Love Story for Bewildered Girls', follows three young women in Leeds and their adventures in love. One knows she likes women, one men, and one just isn鈥檛 sure. Is it rare to see so much sexual diversity in romantic fiction? She joins us to discuss.

Boxer, Simran Kaur, National youth champion, has just won a fifth consecutive National ABA crown. What is it like to already have such success at just 17?

'Mary鈥檚 Babies' is a fictional play based on the true story of Mary Barton, a fertility treatment pioneer who set up a ground-breaking fertility clinic in London alongside her husband in the 1930s. The real clinic鈥檚 practices were controversial at the time and kept secret, with all records of donors destroyed in the early 1960s. It is now thought that Mary鈥檚 husband, Bertold Weisner, fathered around 1,000 babies himself. Jane speaks to playwright, Maud Dromgoole and fertility historian, Dr Yuliya Hilevych

Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Kirsty Starkey

Interviewed Guest: Marian Partington
Interviewed Guest: Deborah Garlick
Interviewed Guest: Emma Morgan
Interviewed Guest: Simran Kaur
Interviewed Guest: Maud Dromgoole
Interviewed Guest: Dr Yuliya Hilevych