What do you do when your toddler is a fussy eater? A guide for parents about fussy eating, which has been available for over 10 years, has just been revaluated by 25 mothers. Jenni hears from Amanda, a mother of two daughters, plus one of the academics behind the guide, Claire Farrow, Professor in Children's Eating Behaviour at Aston University, Birmingham. The system of proxy voting for MPs on baby leave is due to expire this summer. Last year, Andrea Leadsom, then Leader of the House of Commons, announced that MPs could take baby leave. Men would get two weeks and women would get six months when they can, if they choose, vote by proxy. So, what is likely to happen now? And what can be done to prevent gender equality in parliament from being seen as a luxury add-on as the country faces the current health and economic challenges of Covid-19? We hear from Andrea Leadsom MP and Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender at Royal Holloway, University of London. To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream. In her thirties, she moved from the UK to New York to edit magazines, and went on to become one of Folio's Top Women in US Media. In reality, she was rapidly sliding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. The now editor in chief of Empire magazine describes her time in New York and her traumatic childhood of physical and sexual abuse in a new memoir, 'Coming Undone'. Brit Bennett’s novel ‘The Vanishing Half’ is at the top of the New York Times Bestseller list. It tells the story of twin sisters who grow up together in a black community in the South. In adulthood, one continues to live with her black daughter in the town they grew up in, while the other passes for white, withholding her identity from her husband. We speak to Dr Janine Bradbury, Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St John University about the history of 'passing for white' novels and films, many of which offer deeply problematic representations of mixed race women. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Dianne McGregor
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