Woman's Hour - 18/07/2008

With Jane Garvey. Including: Henrietta Lovell, who runs the Rare Tea Company, joins Jane to discuss the art of making the perfect cup of tea, what to drink to keep up anti-oxidants but keep down caffeine, and to explore the subtle possibilities that tea can offer. Why is Infertility treatment becoming so popular abroad? Jane talks to Nigel and Nicola Dawson, who became pregnant after treatment in Spain, and Kate Brian from Infertility Network UK. Friday Panel: Jane is joined by writer and journalist Rowan Pelling, agony aunt Virginia Ironside and author Tim Lott. Topics for discussion include a proposed increase in paternity leave, the age at which children can be safely left alone at home, mental health stigmas affecting MPs and Helen Mirren's bikini. A listener calling herself Spare J started a discussion on the Woman's Hour messageboard called Ideas for Starting Labour. She was at the end of her pregnancy and desperate for labour to start. Jane takes up the story and finds out what happened next from Spare J herself, Alice Dunmore. Including drama: What Is She Doing Here? (5/5).