Woman's Hour - Weekend Woman's Hour

With Jane Garvey. 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Virginia Woolf published these words 80 years ago, in an essay that became one of the seminal feminist texts of our age. A Room of One's Own has shaped the way in which creative achievement is viewed, and provided a point of reference for generations of female writers. Woman's Hour visits a room that Virginia Woolf called her own - a specially-constructed writing lodge at the bottom of her garden at Monk's House in Sussex. Melanie C won universal recognition as Sporty Spice, one fifth of the Spice Girls, the group that burst on to the music scene in the mid-nineties with 'Girl Power'. They had nine number one singles and sold over 50 million records. Melanie has gone on to have a successful solo career, and she became a mother for the first time earlier this year. She talks about her theatrical debut in Willy Russell's hit West End musical Blood Brothers And, Sexism in the City: how are maternity rights impacting on women's success at work?