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My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

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Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Thursdays. podcasts. pelvic floor challenge so start the exercises now if you know them and if you don't you

will learn how to you know it makes sense. The second in our series of family secrets

Christine made her shocking discovery when she was 74.

Tomorrow night is Burns' night when the Hagis will be addressed, but what about his reputation with women? Why did a man with the reputation of a sex pest write a poem about the rights of woman?

And the death of Diana Attill, our memories of her.

Now this week two major reports about the way in which children are looked after

have been published, the National Audit Office has pointed to the growing pressure on Child Protection Services

and how councils in England are having to overspend their budgets to try and meet their statutory responsibilities. The Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health

says the care that children receive in the UK depends on whether they live in England,

Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, But wherever the child lives, funding is a problem

and more needs to be done about child poverty.

Well, Anne Longfield is the Children's Commissioner for England.

The National Audit Office has concluded that the Department of Health and Education has made poor progress.

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