Woman's Hour - 16/07/2008

With Jane Garvey. Including: At the start of the BBC Proms Season at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Louise Adamson meets some of the female prommers, who occupy the unseated sections of the hall, as they queue to get into the concert. Meriel Buxton has written a biography of Mary, the wife of the 11th Duke of Bedford. She joins Jane to talk about the woman who became known as The Flying Duchess. Dr Gulnur Aybet, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, discusses why the wearing of headscarves is such an emotive issue in Turkey and asks where the country's current identity crisis leaves women's rights. Jane talks to Gill, whose husband suffered from dementia and became aggressive when unable to cope with his sexual feelings. She discusses the issue of physical intimacy and dementia with Clive Evers from the Alzheimer's Society. Including drama: What Is She Doing Here? (3/5).