Woman's Hour - 29/10/2008

Presented by Clare Balding. Poet Caroline Bird talks about her writing and her work with the charity Second Sight, writing poetry with children in India who have regained their sight after cataract operations. Clare talks to former tennis player Annabel Croft and sports psychologist Dr Chris Harwood about the malign influence of over-competitive parents on the junior tennis circuit. Celibate mother-of-one, Sonia Poulton, and Times sex columnist and author, Suzi Godson, discuss the benefits of celibacy for single mothers. Louise Adamson visits the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and talks to Reyahn King, Director of Art Galleries for National Museums Liverpool, about a painting by Edgar Degas called Woman Ironing. Corinne Julius is shown around the V and A's new Jewellery Gallery by its consultant curator, Beatriz Chadour Sampson. Including drama: Writing the Century (3/5).