Woman's Hour - 04/09/2008

With Jenni Murray. Including: Lorna Luft explains why she’s looking forward to playing one of the most evil characters in film history; ‘The Wicked Witch of the West’ and why she looking for a new Dorothy, not in Kansas, but in Manchester. The US Food and Drug Administration have just approved the first birth control pill, Lybre,, that eliminates a woman’s monthly period entirely. Jenni is joined by Dr Noreen Khan and Dr Andrew Shail to discuss. Research suggests that many of us regard pets as bona fide family members. We’ll be exploring the way we now see what some would rather call ‘companion animals’. Jenni is joined by Professor Nickie Charles; co-author of “My Family and Other Animals: Pets as Kin” and Tom Cox; author of “Under the Paw, Confessions of a Cat Man”. Stranger In The House – your responses to our interview on 28th August with Julie Summers, author of a book about the difficult relationships that children and wives often had with men who returned damaged from the Second World War. Including Drama The Golden Notebook (9/10).