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When Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah died on Thursday, human rights campaigners criticised state leaders for paying condolences to a man who persistently discriminated against women. Journalist Mona Eltahawy spent her formative years growing up in Saudi Arabia. As Abdullah’s successor, his half-brother Crown Prince Salman, vows to maintain the same approach in governing the country as his predecessor, she discusses the situation facing women in the country today. Jane is also joined byÌýAbeer Mishkhas, journalist with Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat.

What do knitting and computers have in common? Answer – they both use coding. The repetition of knit one purl is closer to the language of computers than you think, which makes every knitter in the land a computer geek, of sorts. Jane talks to Dr Karen Shoop, Lecturer in Digital Media at the Queen Mary University, andÌýÌýBetsan Corkhill, Director of .

It is estimated that over 20% of UK adults in their forties will age without children. There is growing concern that in an increasingly older society that statistic is being overlooked in policy and thinking on ageing.Ìý In an effort to draw attention to the situation the organisation is holding their first conference today. Founding member Jody Day talks to Jane.

A forced marriage, where one or both people do not give their consent, can lead to abuse, rape and in some cases even murder. In the last twelve months alone the government's Forced Marriage Unit has dealt with about 1400 cases. But it's a hidden problem and the actual number of cases is thought to be more than 6000.

In June last year, forced marriage was made a criminal offence. Panorama's Jane Corbin had unprecedented access to the High Commission team in Pakistan as they help British victims sent there to be married against their will. Aneeta Prem, founder of , and Ross Allen, Head of Consulate Assistance, talks to JaneÌýabout what can be done to try and stop crimes taking place and the work of the .

is on Monday 26th at 8.30pm on 91Èȱ¬ One.

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In 1912, the suffragette Katie Gliddon was sentenced to Holloway Prison for breaking a window on Wimpole Street. Katie smuggled a copy of Shelley’s poems and some pencils into the prison, and recorded her time there sketching and writing in the margins around the poetry. Liz Chapman, former director of library services at the , talks to Jane about Katie Gliddon and the amazing discovery of her diary which still survives in the library at the LSE.