Woman's Hour - 21/08/2008

With Jenni Murray. Linda Grant, author of Sexing the Millennium, and Gerard DeGroot, author of Sixties Unplugged, discuss the view that we need to stop viewing this decade through rose-tinted glasses, especially when it comes to evaluating the lives and treatment of women. A children's charity says that vulnerable child witnesses are being let down by the Scottish government. Jenni discusses the issue with Ann Houston, chief executive of Children 1st and Sue Moody from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. Spare a thought for the musician Billy Bragg's mum who has at times suggested her son might have been better off getting a 'proper job', as Billy recently told Q magazine. Billy joins us and we give his mum right of reply. Amanda Owen runs a two thousand acre farm in North Yorkshire, fifty miles from the nearest large town, Northallerton. She tends more than a thousand sheep, rebuilds stone walls and catches moles. Mark Holdstock went to Ravenseat to meet her. Including drama: Writing the Century 1939-1944: Hostages to Fortune (4/5).