Woman's Hour - 23/11/2009

With Jane Garvey. The Inquiry into the Iraq War is imminent and one of its priorities is to hear from families of British service personnel killed in the conflict. Rose Gentle's son Gordon aged 19, a Royal Highland Fusilier, was killed when the Land Rover in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb. She describes her campaign for information about his death and for the inquiry into the war. Approximately 350,000 children are born worldwide every day. In the UK the registration of every birth is taken for granted, and with it the recognition of every child. Yet there are around 51 million children born every year across the globe who do not officially exist. The children's charity Plan International has just completed a five-year campaign for Universal Birth Registration, managing to register 40 million children who did not exist. So why is registration so important? Within the past two decades bras have become big news. Retailers now talk about customers having a 'bra wardrobe' containing the average woman's sports bras, fashion bras, T-shirt bras, nude bras, gel bras, sexy bras and more. But despite this wealth of choice an estimated 80 per cent of women are still wearing the wrong sized bra. Why are we all still so confused about bras? A new BBC drama claims married ballerina Margot Fonteyn enjoyed a passionate affair with her gay dance partner, Rudolf Nureyev, 19 years her junior. Their electric onstage partnership transformed the fortunes of the ageing Fonteyn, extending her career by 17 years. Jane is joined by Anne-Marie Duff, the BAFTA nominated Shameless actor who is playing the title role in the film, and Meredith Daneman, a former student at the Royal Ballet School and Margot Fonteyn's biographer.