Woman's Hour - 16/03/2009

Presented by Jane Garvey. American country singer Diana Jones talks to Jane about the poignant influences on her very personal music, and sings live in the studio. Sayed Pervez Kambaksh is a 24 year old Afghan student journalist who was sentenced to death in Afghanistan last year for allegedly circulating an article which questioned Islam's relationship with women's rights. Jane is joined by journalist Jerome Starkey, who has followed this story for over a year. What is the reality of living in a different culture? Jane is joined by author Elizabeth Noble, who has moved with her family to New York; Sue Hitchen, Editor of Living Abroad Magazine, who moved her family to Spain, and Esther Freud, author of Hideous Kinky, about her experience of living in Morocco. What to wear this season? Vogue's Fashion Editor Harriet Quick joins Jane to talk through the new trends. Should a woman be able to request an epidural early in labour and not be questioned, or should it be a measure of last resort? Listeners give their responses. Plus drama: Seeing is Believing By Sian Evans. A man is forced to re-examine everything when he sees a UFO one Saturday night in a pub car park. Jon ...... Richard Greenwood Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy Naomi/Witness 1 ...... Meg Fraser Dasa/Newsreader ...... Lesley Hart Krish ...... Atta Yaqub Ellie ...... Clare Yuille Si/Manager ...... Grant O'Rourke Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.