This month we published the following features:

The housewife
Does a housewife always live in a house? Is she always a married woman and what can we call her if she isn't married and lives in a flat? In this programme we find out when the term 'housewife' first came about and how women feel about it today.

A True Mancunian
Coinciding with the BBC Learning English team's road trip to Manchester we profile James Hickman - 'A True Mancunian'. ('Mancunian' is the term for someone who comes from Manchester).

Fair Trade
Fairtrade is a way of buying and selling products to make certain that the original producer receives a fair price.

In this programme BBC reporter Barbara Colins talks to some English shoppers, a retail analyst who studies what people buy and a fairtrade expert from the international development charity, Oxfam.

Young Nigerian's powerful new novel
In this edition, we celebrate the achievements of the young Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chimamanda is only 28 years old but she is already being described by critics as:

'a writer wise beyond her years'.