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You can hear Annie Nightingale on Radio1 and 1Xtra on Tuesday nights (Wednesday mornings) at 1am till 4am, and you can listen any time on the .

Radio 2 will broadcast a two part documentary series 'On Air with Annie Nightingale' about Annie's life in music at 10pm on July 15th a

Annie Nightingale’s new compilation, Masterpiece, is a celebration of 50 years in the music business and is out 17 July on .

is a stand-up comedian who deals with race and religion, and growing up in London as a young British Muslim. Her most recent show ‘I am not Malala’ looks at Malala Yousafzai’s reception by Western media. She recently performed at the as part of a special series marking Ramadan.  Sadia joins Jane to talk about her comedy, and the response she’s had since bringing her experiences to stand-up.

Four years ago author Jenny Valentine was diagnosed with breast cancer.  She went with her husband to break the news to her parents - and learnt that her father had been diagnosed with cancer too, and his was terminal. Jenny's father died in 2012.  This month, Jenny  published her latest novel "Fire Colour One," including a character, Ernest, loosely based on her dad.  Jenny joins the programme to talk about how a family copes when two members are ill at the same time, why someone dying is not an obstacle to getting to know them, and how she thinks the topic of death should be tackled in young adult fiction.

Another instalment in our series of features about working women. Emma Barnett retraces the journey that suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst made in 1907, when she toured factories farms and pit heads looking at the working lives of ordinary women. In 21st century Britain Emma has met some very impressive women; Women like Barbara Piper, who's worked as a carer at orchard court In Lingfield, in Surrey.