Woman's Hour - 17/09/2008

Presented by Jane Garvey. Gloria Hunniford joins Jane to talk about how letters of sympathy helped her as she grieved for her daughter Caron, who died of cancer in 2004. The award-winning American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joins Jane to discuss what new audiences can bring to opera, why she is glad not to have met Leonard Bernstein and her love of Handel's female characters. Are strict routines harmful to a baby's development or just encouraging them to eat and sleep well? Jane is joined by Barbara Want, the author of Baby Secrets: How to Know your Baby's Needs, and Claire Scott, an advocate of the 'continuum concept' and a mentor on the Channel 4 series Bringing Up Baby. Brilliant Dube, Vice President of the Zimbabwe National Students Union, joins Jane to talk about her hopes for Zimbabwe's power-sharing agreement, and the difference it could make for the millions of young people she represents. Including drama: The Dig (3/5).