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Once released from prison should convicted sex offenders be able to return to their previous lives? Charlotte Henry, blogger for the Spectator, and Deborah Orr from the Guardian join Jane to discuss the moral dilemma provoked by the case of the footballer, Ched Evans. 

Angel Blue is an American soprano, who has currently made her home in the UK. You can soon see her starring as Mimi in the English National Opera’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme.  Born to a musical family in the US desert town Apple Valley, Angel started singing in her local church.  Her talent was obvious but money was scarce so Angel paid her way to opera school by competing in beauty pageants.  She was spotted by Placido Domingo who hailed her as the next Leontyne Price.   He  gave her a place on his Young Artist Programme at Los Angeles Opera and has mentored her ever since.  This month she also brings out her debut album, Joy Alone.  She joins Jane in the studio.

Amy Lawrence is a football journalist. She tells us what it’s been like reporting on the glorious game for the last 20 years and about her new book Invincible which looks at what made Arsenal’s team for their unbeaten season in 2003-2004 so special.

The late 1960’s in the north of England saw the birth of Northern Soul, an American inspired dance movement which gained a passionate youth following, and helped to define a generation. In Elaine Constantine’s film ‘Northern Soul’, the intensity of this underground movement is portrayed by following the story of two young friends trying to make a name for themselves as Northern Soul DJ’s. This is Elaine’s directorial debut, and it charts a place and time that made an indelible mark on her teenage years in Lancashire. Jane Garvey will be talking to Elaine and to Northern Soul dance instructor Sharon Sullivan, about the film and why the movement still speaks to audiences today.

Emily St John Mandel is an American writer and the author of Station Eleven, a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world with a travelling troupe of Shakespearean actors. The novel has been receiving rave reviews and has just been shortlisted for the 2014 National Book Awards.  Emily kicks off a series in which we ask  Woman’s Hour guests of all ages and professions what success means to them.