Woman's Hour - 29/04/2009

With Jenni Murray. To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's becoming Britain's first female Prime Minister, Julia Hartley Brewer, political editor of the Sunday Express, and Gaby Hinsliff, political editor of The Observer, join Jenni to discuss what Thatcher did to promote women, who the future contenders for the role could be and why more women are not rising to the top in politics. How close are we to seeing another woman in the top job? Every ten days in England and Wales one child is killed at the hands of their parent. In light of the Baby P case and a recent select committee report that England's care system needs a radical overhaul because it is failing to protect children, what are the major challenges for one of the country's leading children's charities? Jenni talks to Andrew Flanagan, the new chief executive of the NSPCC, whose purpose is to end cruelty to children. Poet Alice Oswald talks about her latest work, inspired by the River Severn at night. Her poetry often draws on the landscape around her and Dart, her book-length poem about the West Country waterway, has become a national favourite and won her one of poetry's most coveted awards, the TS Eliot Prize. And Mama Zeena from Kenya talks about her campaigning work to reduce maternal mortality around the world.