Woman's Hour - 27/08/2009

With Jenni Murray. Discussing the link between mouth cancer and the Human Papilloma Virus. What does a man do when he's approaching middle age? If you're Nicky Campbell you write and release an album of swing music. The album is called Moonlight's Back in Style and it offers his take on the feelings men get when they reach their middle years. The male midlife crisis has usually been associated with a new sports car or perhaps even an ear piercing. But what does it really feel like and does it have to be a negative experience? Nicky Campbell and Peter Curran join Jenni to discuss what prompts a midlife crisis and how it can be navigated. Sharon Olds is one of America's finest living poets, and in her new collection One Secret Thing she broaches fresh territory: the honour and dishonour of war and the death of a mother. She has long been renowned for paying scrupulous attention to the experience of the human body, to motherhood and to sexuality; her poems have been called 'pure fire in the hands'. She joins Jenni to discuss her motivation for writing and her nomination for the prestigious Forward Prize.