Woman's Hour - 13/11/2008

Presented by Jane Garvey. Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, who was recently appointed as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, joins Jane to talk about the challenges of her new job and about the generosity of the people from her home town, who collected money to pay for her high school and university education. When elderly parents who are struggling to cope resist your help, at what point should you step in? Jane discusses the issue with Kate Jopling, Head of Public Affairs at Help the Aged, and Baroness Julia Neuberger, author of Not Dead Yet - A Manifesto for Old Age. What does your singing voice say about you? Jane discusses the female vocal range and women's relationship with their voices with voice coach Patsy Rodenberg and the singer Catherine Bott, who has a two-and-a-half-octave singing range. Louise Adamson joins curator Xanthe Brooke at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool to visit the portrait of an extraordinary woman, Princess Marguerite of Angouleme, who lived in France in the Sixteenth Century. Including drama: A Taste for Death.