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Who is the greatest female singer-songwriter? As ‘Beautiful – the Carole King musical’ opens in London tonight, ahead of the Brit awards later in the week and the centenary of Billie Holiday’s birth in April, musician Cerys Matthews reveals her top 5 all-time favourites. 

Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at  the results of pre-election research done for Woman's Hour about the key concerns for women as they think about how to cast their vote on May 7th.   The NHS came top, followed by the cost of living,  and then the cost of caring for a family.  Today the fourth concern - Immigation.  Jane hears the views of a group of women from Solihull and looks at the issues with Sunder Katwala  Director of  the Think Tank British Future and Allegra Stratton, Political Editor of Â鶹ԼÅÄ 2’s Newsnight.

See the poll results in full at:

Joanna Jepson is a Church of England priest who was born with a jaw abnormality which led to years of bullying and low-esteem throughout her childhood. In her new memoir, ‘A Lot Like Eve’ Joanna discusses how her evangelical upbringing, painful reconstructive facial surgery and her time in a Welsh convent inspired her to become a vicar and the first Chaplain to the London College of Fashion. She joins Jane to discuss how she was pulled into the media spotlight in 2003 when she challenged the late abortion of a foetus with a cleft palate, her experience of sexism in the Church and why she is passionate about fashion.

A Lot Like Eve: Fashion, Faith and Fig-Leaves: A Memoir is published by Bloomsbury on 26 February 2015

When Claira Hermet was nine years old she lost her mother to breast cancer and three years ago she lost her sister to the same illness. Claira then discovered that she carried the BRCA1 gene mutation meaning she had an 85 percent life chance of getting breast cancer herself.  And so, at the age of 27, Claira recently opted to have a double mastectomy. A documentary on Radio 1, being aired tonight, (24th February) has followed her story from making the decision to have the double mastectomy right through to the operation itself. Jane speaks to her about her experience.

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For more information about BRCA and breast cancer go to Breast Cancer Campaign