Woman's Hour - 26/11/2010

Presented by Jenni Murray. Picky eaters - have you ever regretted asking a dinner guest 'Is there anything you don't eat?' We ask whether our indulgence of others' food preferences has gone too far when it starts spilling into adulthood? Jenni Murray seeks the advice of the food writer Rose Prince. Motherhood and rock and roll - can they ever mix? Jenni Murry talks to ex Sleeper frontwoman Louise Wener and to music journalist Lucy O'Brien. How is the current wave of Irish emigration different to previous generations and what are the implications for families? Jenni Murray talks to Sarah Coleman, a young Irish woman about to leave for New Zealand, journalist and academic Jane Suiter, and the novelist Edna O'Brien. If you had survived The Civil War, by 1645 you might be forgiven for thinking the country was now a safer place but that wouldn't have been true if you were a woman living in East Anglia. Over the next two years it became the focus of the most brutal witch hunt in England's history. As a four hundred year old diary chronicling the witch trials goes digital, we examine what it took to remain safe from the Witch hunters. Jenni Murray talks to Dr Malcolm Gaskill of the University of East Anglia and to Sheila Burdett who's conducted specialist research into the man behind the diary.