Woman's Hour - 05/08/2009

With Jenni Murray. When Britain and America first went to war with Afghanistan in 2001, one of the stated aims was to defeat the Taliban, whose regime had placed many harsh restrictions on the lives of Afghan women. Director the Institute of Ideas Claire Fox and the author Carol Gould join Jenni to discuss what the notion of a 'just war' means to feminists. Penelope Lively joins Jenni to talk about her sixteenth novel, Family Album. A big, shabby Victorian house, full of the smell of raincoats and coq au vin. Six mugs are slung from the kitchen dresser hooks, one for each of the children who have grown up there. Allersmead seems the perfect family home. But is it? One by one, the now adult children return to their home-making mother and aloof writer father and the house that for years played silent witness to a secret. Penelope talks to Jenni about the theme of memory, and how people manage to edit and rearrange the past. Karen Geoghegan is a 21-year-old bassoonist who is making her Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall, playing Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat major with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Karen was a popular runner-up in BBC Two's talent competition Classical Star two years ago, and is in her final year at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Karen gives a taste of the Mozart Concerto and talks to Jenni about the challenges of the repertoire and her ambition to popularise the bassoon as a solo instrument. Research shows that potty training is happening later than ever and for many infant school children the odd accident is not uncommon. But whose job is it to keep a child clean, if they're barely out of nappies by the time they go to school? Jenni discusses the issues with Sharon Liburd, a solicitor with the teachers' union ATL and Eileen Jakes from the charity ERIC.