Woman's Hour - 27/05/2008

With Jenni Murray. Including: In 1995, Jane Treays attracted attention for her film Painted Babies, following the fortunes of two five-year-old entrants in an American junior beauty pageant. She recently returned to the US to see what has become of the girls as teenagers for her film Painted Babies Growing Up. Writer Bea Campbell discusses the role women played in getting the massively expanded equality laws into the Good Friday Agreement and how they are now working in practice. She is joined by Inez McCormack, former President of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Kristina, Celeste and Juliana were born into the Children of God, a cult which promised love, forgiveness and kindness. But from the age of three, each of them was subjected to sexual abuse. They explain how they survived and why they are determined to help thousands of children trapped in abusive cults today. Anna McNamee visits the National Portrait Gallery to find out more about poet Elizabeth Carter, whose Ode to Wisdom features in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. Including drama: Jane and Prudence. Barbara Pym's delightful comedy of rural relationships, set in 1950, about two women in pursuit of happiness. 2/10. Newly arrived in the parish, vicar's wife Jane is having a good look round. Prudence, meanwhile, is nursing an unrequited love for her employer. Narrator ...... Penelope Wilton Jane ...... Susie Blake Prudence ...... Emma Fielding Miss Doggett ...... Elizabeth Spriggs Miss Morrow ...... Alison Pettitt Fabian ...... Gerard McDermott Nicholas ...... David Thorpe Mr Manifold ...... Kieran Buckeridge Miss Clothier ...... Jenny Lee Miss Trapnell ...... Angela Curran Canon Pritchard ...... Rod Arthur Directed by Chris Wallis.