Woman's Hour - 23/04/2010

Presented by Sheila McClennan. We discuss keeping ferrets - no longer a Northern, male preserve. So why choose a ferret over a cat, a dog or a guinea pig? Research suggest that 5000 women have left the television industry in the last three years, compared to 750 men. So why is telly such an unappealing career for a woman? Should the people who run the industry do more to keep them? Or is it time to accept that some professions are anti social and child unfriendly. If you can't take it maybe you should find another career? Professor Caroline Moser is an anthropologist who has studied communities all over the world. Not content with simply observing, she decided to live in a slum on the outskirts of Ecuador's largest city - and took her husband and two young sons with her. That was thirty years ago, and now she's published her decades long study into the community, which began as her subjects, and became her friends. Plus, the landlady of the Rover's Return - Beverley Callard talks about her autobiography, and life behind the bar of the nation's most famous pub.