Woman's Hour - 07/01/2009

Presented by Jenni Murray. 2009 marks fifty years of Motown Records and joining Jenni to celebrating the women of Detroit City's finest record label are music journalist and Motown historian Adam White and soul singer, Beverley Knight. Writer Paul Martin explores the idea of pleasure in his new book 'Sex, Drugs and Chocolate'. He joins Jenni to offer some suggestions for delightful, but harmless, pleasures to keep us all happy. Nadje Al-Ali's latest book 'What Kind of Liberation?' is an in-depth examination of the position of women in Iraq today. She joins Jenni to explore the pivotal roles Iraqi women are playing in the formation of a new, non-violent nation. Listener response to the Woman's Hour discussion on the Little Red Dress: thoughts on why we feel glamorous as soon as we put a red dress on and whether there are some reds that should never be worn. The Royal Horticultural Society is now running a series of workshops to demystify the classification and identification of plants known as taxonomy. Anna Bailey met the botanists Janet Cubey and Dawn Edwards along with their students at Wisley Gardens in Surrey. Including drama: Writing the Century