Woman's Hour - 08/12/2008

Presented by Jane Garvey. Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard and advisor to John McCain, talks to Jane about the glass ceiling in American politics and business. Jane talks to critic and biographer Hermione Lee and the author Penelope Lively about the writer Elizabeth Bowen's fascinating life and long literary career, and discovers what inspired her to write To The North. Monday Panel: Jane is be joined by Kate Allen of Amnesty International UK, journalist Rachel Cooke, and Anastasia De Waal from Civitas. They discuss the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; their tips for the BBC Sports Personality of the year and how harshly should we be judging Karen Matthews? An outbreak of cholera is just the latest disaster to hit the long suffering people of Zimbabwe. On a crackly phone line from Bulawayo, Jane talks to Jenny Williams from WOZA , Women of Zimbabwe Arise, about the everyday struggle to survive. Including drama: To the North.