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To date only 30% of candidates selected to fight seats for the Conservatives at the next election are female. Jenni is joined by Dr Sarah Wollaston Conservative MP for Totnes and Times columnist, Alice Thomson to discuss why, despite reports of David Cameron鈥檚 frustration with the situation, women continue to be passed over in constituencies and what needs to happen to reverse this pattern.

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is an archive of interviews from notable women from 63 years of the programme. The whole collection is available to listen online on the .听 Each week we will be broadcasting one of the interviews and making it available as a download.听 One of the earliest recordings is from 1946 with the actress Dame Lillian Braithwaite. Anne Karpf joins Jenni to discuss how and why women鈥檚 voices and accents in broadcasting have changed over the years.

In the last of the Woman鈥檚 Hour discussions about the reality for women in each of the emerging MINT economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey, today Jenni Murray turns to Turkey to find out why听women鈥檚 economic participation听is the lowest of all the MINT countries?听Despite being one of the world鈥檚 fastest growing economies only听one in four women are in or looking for work.听Jenni is joined by the writers and commentators Elif Shafak and Alev Scott.

Listen to our items on the situation for women in the other MINT economies:

British female artists have dominated the music industry over recent years with听Emeli Sande, Adele, Susan Boyle and Amy Winehouse leading听the way in album sales. But what about on the other side of the mixing desk?听 What do the women do behind the scenes? What goes on in the world of A&R, what do you do as a record producer and how does an engineer spend her day? Jenni talks to three women at the top of their game within the world of music. Guests: Jo Charrington, Amy Morgan听and Mandy Parnell.

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