Woman's Hour - 09/01/2009

Presented by Jenni Murray. Former GMTV presenter Fiona Phillips talks about coping with Alzheimer's disease in the family. Is this the first big recession to hit women workers hard? Professor Marilyn Davidson and Nicola Smith from the TUC Economics Department join Jenni to ask if women employees are suffering most as the credit crunch besieges the high street? The Toda tribe in India is one of the country's smallest communities, but women are rejecting this highly patriarchal society and marrying outside the tribe. What does the future hold for the Todas? Clare Jenkins reports. Jenni is joined by Laura Howell from the Beano and political cartoonist Martha Richler (better known as Marf) to discuss what women bring to the art of cartooning. What happens when parents find themselves living with their grown-up sons and daughters for much longer than they would ever have expected? Including drama: Writing the Century.