Catherine Bott chooses the best of BBC Radio this week. 
Chapters
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Tiger Mothers
How strict a parent should you be? With author Amy Chua and Child Development Expert Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer.
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Maternal connection between heart disease and stroke
Dr Rachael James and Dr Amitava Banerjee discuss a new study which shows that women whose mothers have suffered strokes are at a far higher risk of having a heart attack and stroke themselves.
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Children's wartime literature
Author Michelle Magorian and Guardian children's book editor Julia Eccleshare on why wartime novels are such an important genre for children.
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Shoes
Richard Thomas, writer of the song and dance show, Shoes, and shoe designer Emma Hope join Jane to discuss our complex relationship with footwear.
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Tiger Mothers
Amy Chua is author of the memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, currently Book of the Week on R4. She raised her two daughters using a strict Chinese-parenting model, designed to produce academic success and exceptional musical ability. A lifestyle in which schoolwork comes first and the only activities children should be allowed to do are those in which they can eventually win a medal! Amy joins Jane, along with Child Development Expert, Elizabeth Hartley-Brewer, to discuss whether this level of parental control leads to success, or should discipline be balanced with freedom?
Book of the Week on Radio 4:
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua, published by Bloomsbury. ISBN: 978-1-4088-1267-9. -
Maternal connection between heart disease and stroke
A new study shows that women whose mothers have suffered strokes are at a far higher risk of having a heart attack. They are also significantly more likely to have a stroke themselves. The researchers, from the the Stroke Prevention Unit Research Unit at Oxford University believe that women may be more at risk of inherited forms of heart disease whereas with men it tends to be triggered by lifestyle factors such as diet, drinking and smoking,and they are warning that family history of cardiovascular disease as a potential early warning sign for women is under-used by doctors. Jayne is joined by Dr Rachael James, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton and lead author of the study, Dr Amitava Banerjee.
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Children’s Wartime Literature
A new exhibition opens this Friday at the Imperial War Museum in London, celebrating children’s war literature. Called Once Upon a Wartime, it brings to life some of our best loved books written for children about conflict from War Horse by Michael Morpurgo which is set in the Great War, to the present day with Bernard Ashley’s Little Soldier. Jane discusses why wartime novels are such an important genre for children with Michelle Magorian who wrote the classic novel Goodnight Mister Tom and Julia Eccleshare the Guardian’s Children’s Book Editor.
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Shoes
So what is it about shoes? How many pairs do you actually own? Why do some women spend a fortune on them? Do you have a liking for ludicrous heels? Or are trainers your thing? Richard Thomas, writer of the song and dance show, Shoes, and shoe designer Emma Hope join Jane to discuss our complex relationship with footwear.
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 4Tue 8 Feb 2011 10:00 BBC Radio 4
Free downloads
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