Woman's Hour - 26/09/2008

Presented by Jane Garvey. Author Xanthe Clay talks to Jane about the difference between recipes on the page and the ones that we hold in our heads and hearts. They are joined by the food historian Diane Purkiss. Jane discusses the role parents play in treating ADHD and what treatment works with psychologist Oliver James and Jenny Missen of ADDISS, the ADHD charity. Friday Panel: Jane is joined by Gaby Hinsliff, political editor of the Observer, business entrepreneur and broadcaster Saira Khan and Francis Gilbert, English teacher and author. They discuss the lengths that wives, such as Sarah Brown, go to to support their husbands in public; the Catholic school that has banned pupils taking the cervical cancer vaccine; the relevance to British women of a new set of research from Toronto University that suggests women are happier working for a tough male boss than a tough female boss: the Queen Bee Syndrome. Including drama: Shattered (5/5).