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charity estimates 20,000 people are working in slavery in the UK, and聽they say聽that number is rising.聽 Among them are聽thousands of young women who arrive in the UK as brides, but聽they find that聽real life becomes a trap of drudgery and violence at the hands of their husbands, and even his family. Authorities are sometimes confused, or reluctant, as to how to help. Jane聽is joined by international family lawyer Cris McCurley and Soraya Azam from the Awaaz Honour Crimes Project, a charity聽that helps women escape, to discuss what鈥檚 being done to tackle the problem.

Two聽technology giants, Facebook and Apple, are to help female employees in the US to pay for the cost of freezing their eggs. The news has provoked fierce debate. Does this level the playing field for women who want to delay motherhood until their career is further advanced? Or is it a step too far by employers who are effectively making a problem out of women having children?聽 Professor Geeta Nargund, medical director at Create Fertility IVF Clinics and Daisy Sands, head of policy at the campaigning group the Fawcett Society, debate the issues.

The children鈥檚 author Kate Saunders has written a sequel to E Nesbit鈥檚 鈥�5 Children and It鈥�, taking the children and the Psammead through World War聽One and into adulthood.聽 She joins Jane to discuss why聽she聽wanted to revive these much loved characters, written over a hundred years ago, and聽how her own personal loss has inspired the book.

Why do poor people do things that seem so self-destructive? When Linda Tirado saw this question on an online forum she thought she鈥檇 have a stab at answering it. She was living in Utah with her husband and two small girls, working two jobs and going to college. Her answer, under the heading 鈥淲hy I make terrible decisions, or, poverty thoughts鈥�, struck a chord. Linda鈥檚 take on junk food, smoking and having children with multiple partners was shared online more than seven million times. Linda talks to Jane about that article, the response she faced when it went viral and her new book, about being poor in a wealthy world.

Rachel, currently revived at the Finborough Theatre in London,聽was the first play by an African American woman to be produced professionally in 1916. The playwright Angelina Weld Grimk茅 was a poet, dramatist, journalist, teacher, essayist, radical feminist and lesbian icon. Ola Ince, the director of Rachel, joins Jane to discuss her significance.