Woman's Hour - 27/05/2009

With Jenni Murray. Just last year Victoria Hesketh was writing songs in her parents' garage and hadn't even come up with the name Little Boots, but now she is one of Britain's most hotly tipped new popstars. She put her first song up on the internet in February last year; when interest grew, she started to post clips of herself on YouTube, messing around in her pyjamas singing covers of Human League and Madonna songs as well as her own material. The clips attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers. By November, she was appearing on Later With Jools Holland alongside Damon Albarn and Al Green. An electropop musician, she plays synthesisers, piano, the stylophone and sings. Little Boots joins Jenni to talk about her distinctive style of music, which she describes as 'cosmic Coronation Street', and performs live with her Tenori-on sequencer. Deborah Meaden is a successful UK entrepreneur, best known as one of the dragons on BBC2's Dragons' Den. She started her career at the age of 19, running a glass and ceramics import company, then made her name - and her money - in her family's holiday park business. She sold the company in 2007 in a deal worth 83 million pounds. Deborah joins Jenni to talk about her entrepreneurial mindset, how her mother encouraged her to love to work from the age of five, and how to make money from good ideas. Since the late 1970s there has been a huge expansion in religious schools for girls in Pakistan. The most high profile was that attached to the radical Red Mosque - the site of a long siege and a number of deaths after it was stormed by the authorities in 2007. But why are more and more families sending their girls to religious schools? Are they linked to Islamic fundamentalism or was the Red Mosque a one-off? Dr Massooda Bano has been awarded a grant to study the schools and joins Jenni to discuss them, along with Dr Farzana Shaikh from Cambridge University. Plus: the project encouraging teenage parents back into education.