Woman's Hour - 17/03/2009

Presented by Jane Garvey. Over the centuries many artists have portrayed their mothers in their pictures. Art Historian Juliet Heslewood has brought many of the portraits together in a book and talks to Jane about the insight they give us into the relationship between the sitters and their artist children. What are the symptoms of ovarian cancer? Jane is joined by the GP Dr Sarah Jarvis and Loretta Oliver, who has advanced ovarian cancer and runs awareness workshops about the disease for women who work in the City. Emma Kennedy's family camping meant storms, nuclear-style sunburn and what she describes as 'an unholy' amount of food poisoning. She joins Jane to talk about her new book, The Tent, the Bucket and Me, as does Tess Carr, a self-confessed 'happy camper' who has advice on how to avoid tent-related traumas. New research into the hormone kisspeptin, which triggers puberty, shows it has the potential to help infertile women whose periods have stopped due to a hormone imbalance. The research has been led by Dr Waljit Dhillo, a consultant and senior lecturer in endocrinology. He joins Jane to talk through his findings. England's Women's Cricket team are through to the final of the World Cup for the first time since 1993. The captain of the England Women's Cricket team Charlotte Edwards talks to Jane from Sydney 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. Unwilling to confide in his wife, Jon turns to someone he meets over the internet. Jon ...... Richard Greenwood Anna ...... Tamara Kennedy Ellie ...... Clare Yuille Krish/Witness 2 ...... Atta Yaqub Naomi ...... Meg Fraser Si ...... Grant O'Rourke Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane.