Woman's Hour - 23/12/2008

Presented by Jane Garvey. Arsenal and England striker Kelly Smith has just been nominated World Player of the Year. She joins Jane to talk about her nomination and being one of the world's top female football players. Five million people aged 65 and over live in some degree of pain or discomfort. Jane is joined by Baroness Julia Neuberger and Minister of State for Care services, Phil Hope, to discuss this growing problem. The first woman to join the Indian Police Services has embarked on a career in television; becoming a mediator on the popular Indian series 'Aap Ki Kachehri (The People's Court). As the programme prepares to launch on British screens, Jane talks to Kiran Bedi about her fresh start. Cup cakes were the most googled recipe this year, with an array of baked treats following close behind. So what is behind this renaissance in cake making? Jane is joined by cookery writer Mary Berry, a Victoria sponge and some cup cakes. Fiona Clampin went to meet gardener Vicky Dillon at Cotehele in Cornwall, a 16th-century National Trust property, where every Christmas for more than 50 years they've been making a garland from flowers grown and dried on the estate. Measuring 60 feet, the garland hangs the length of Cotehele's Great Hall. Plus drama: Old Peter's Russian Tales.