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In August Jo Pavey became the oldest female European Athletics champion after winning gold in the 10,000m in Zurich. The extraordinary win came just ten days after winning a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. At the age of forty and only eleven months after giving birth to her second child, Jo was unsure if she would even qualify for the championships, let alone win it. Jo joins Jenni to discuss her thrilling win and why she puts her success down to being a busy mum.

Thursday is GCSE result day and often the first time that young people seriously start considering their next steps and thinking about career options. Research shows young women are still being discouraged from traditionally male-dominated careers like IT and engineering. If they’re taking a vocational route how are those stereotyped choices being challenged?Ìý

Jenni speaks to Marion Plant OBE, Joint Principal of North Warwickshire & Hinckley College and South Leicestershire College andÌýTiana Locker, youth engagement officer for City and Guilds.

Over a lengthy career, Helen McCrory has played an impressive range of roles. On stage she’s been Rosalind in ‘As You Like it’; and Libby in ‘The Last of the Haussmans’; her film roles have included Cherie Blair in ‘The Queen’, Narcissa Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies and Clair Dowar in the James Bond film, Skyfall. On the small screen she has played a raft of roles including the older woman who falls for a much younger man in Tony Marchant’s Leaving.

Now she stars as the ultimate anti-heroine, Euripides’s Medea, in a new . Medea tells the story of a jilted wife, who breaks the ultimate taboo by murdering her children as a way of revenge against her ex-husband.ÌýJenni Murray talks to Helen about playing the title role in one of the most horrifying of the Greek tragedies.

The productionÌýÌýwill be broadcast from the National Theatre live to over 550 cinemas in the UK on

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Last week on Woman’s Hour we discussed the problems faced by women if their pelvic floor becomes too tight. Pelvic floor dysfunction is a condition which we usually associate with women, but men can also suffer from this condition. It’s something which can be difficult to talk about, but it can lead to incontinence, pain and sexual problems. Dr Ruth Jones joins Jenni to talk about the symptoms, the problems which this condition can cause and how it can be treated.

Trix Kipling, the talented sister of Rudyard, was determined to write and published a promising novel aged 22. Her family, particularly her husband, disapproved and after her own voice was stifled she started to hear the voices of others. Mary Hamer tells Jenni how the story of Trix Kipling inspired her to weave the scraps of biographical information about Trix into a novel.Ìý