Woman's Hour - 11/09/2009

With Jenni Murray. Jenni asks if 11-year-olds are being put under too much pressure in the entrance exams for the school of their parents' choice. She talks to Secretary General of the NUT Christine Blower and to Dr Bernard Trafford, Headmaster of the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle. American journalist Gretchen Peters spent 10 years reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan for the American network ABC News. She talks to Jenni about her new book Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda. Edwardian playwight Githa Sowerby's 1912 play Rutherford & Son is to have its professional premiere on Tyneside almost one hundred years after it received critical acclaim in London. Jenni talks to Sowerby's biographer, Pat Riley, and to Viv Gardner, Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester. The Duke and Duchess of York seem to have done it - but is staying friends with your ex realistic? Jenni talks to journalist Joan Smith and to Paula Hall, Relate Counsellor and author of How to Have a Healthy Divorce.