Woman's Hour - 06/07/2009

With Jane Garvey. A new survey suggests that two thirds of all expectant parents of twins and multiple births are denied access to multiple-specific parent education, which could be vital for promoting healthy outcomes for mothers and their unborn twins and triplets. As a result, they are more at risk of medical complications, less prepared for the birth experience itself and more prone to postnatal depression. Woman's Hour discusses what support these families can be given during pregnancy. Emma Johnson was once described as 'Britain's favourite clarinettist', being one of the few clarinettists to have established an international career as a soloist. Since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1984, Emma has been one of the UK's biggest selling classical artists ever, selling over a quarter of a million discs worldwide, and being awarded an MBE in 1996 for services to music. Emma joins Jane to discuss her career and to demonstrate some Klezmer music. A mobile phone so simple it could be used by very young children will go on sale in the UK in October. But do we really want our children to be using mobiles? Critics argue that aside from the disputed health risks, mobiles put children at risk of being mugged and receiving unwanted and potentially threatening text messages. However, some parents feel it is critical to child safety. The myth of Baba Yaga is one of the most famous stories in Russian and Eastern European mythology. Baba Yaga is a witch-like character who lives in a house on chicken feet and kidnaps young children. In her latest novel, Baba Yaga Laid An Egg, the Croatian writer and academic Dubravka Ugresic tackles the myth through contemporary narratives, from the story of a woman's relationship with her mother and the tale of three ageing women on holiday at a spa. Jane talks to Dubravka about her novel and leaving her homeland of the former Yugoslavia to move to Amsterdam after being proclaimed a 'traitor', a 'public enemy' and a 'witch'.