One to One

Rachel Johnson is struggling with writing her latest novel, and talks to writer A.L. Kennedy about setting rules, distraction techniques and how to make the time to write.

In the second of a two part series about families with inherited genetic disorders, Jane Hill meets John Jennings, who doesn't know if he's inherited a rare form of Alzheimer's. Produced by Sally Heaven

In the first of two programmes about people from families with inherited genetic disorders, Jane Hill meets Caroline Harding, who had to decide whether to test her unborn child. Produced by Sally Heaven

As Afghanistan goes to the polls, and its president, Hamid Karzai steps down, the BBC's Kabul correspondent, David Loyn, talks to his cousin, political analyst Hekmat Karzai. Produced by Jolyon Jenkins

As western forces prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan, and the country faces elections, the BBC’s Kabul correspondent David Loyn talks to women's rights campaigner Soraya Pakzat Produced by Jolyon Jenkins

Emma Barnett is a feminist who believes in equality for women but, as an orthodox jew, she's uncomfortable with female rabbis, like Sylvia Rothschild. Can she resolve this tension? Produced by Lucy Lunt

Emma Barnett talks to a top lawyer about how they, as feminists, negotiate the contradictory world of also being orthodox Jews. Produced by Lucy Lunt

Andrea Catherwood talks to senior women in the City about how they combine motherhood with their high flying careers. Charlotte Crosswell is Chief Executive Officer of the trading derivatives platform of NASDAQ in London, so how does she make it work?

For this series of 'One to One', we talk to senior women in the City about how they combine motherhood with their high flying careers. Brenda Trenowden is a managing director at ANZ bank in London's financial hub Canary Wharf. How does she manage a full time, high pressured job that takes up evenings as well?

In this series of interviews for 'One to One', Anita discovers what drives people towards certain careers. Was there an epiphany, something in their very core, or a series of events that motivated them? This week’s guest is children's lawyer, Mathew Waddington.

In this series of interviews for 'One to One', Anita Anand discovers what drives people to pursue certain careers. This week Anita meets facial surgeon, Professor Iain Hutchison.

In this series of interviews for 'One to One', Anita Anand discovers what drives people to pursue certain careers. Anita's first guest is Juliet Lyon. She's the director of the Prison Reform Trust, a charity 'working to create a just, humane and effective penal system.'

More from the series where broadcasters follow their personal passions by talking to the people whose stories interest them most. Since his daughter was born five years ago, BBC Science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has been fascinated by the way father-daughter relationships work. In the second of a two part series, he talks to Julie White, CEO of a diamond drilling company, about her relationship with her father, who sold the company to her in 2008.

In this series of One to One, where broadcasters pursue topics that interest them beyond their day to day job, BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh finds out more about the way fathers and daughters interact - a subject that's fascinated him since the birth of his daughter 5 years ago. In the first programme of two, he talks to lone parent Bob Greig about his experiences of fatherhood, especially when it was something that was thrust upon him by the breakdown of his marriage when his daughters were young.

As a Radio 4 presenter, covering a range of stories everyday, Carolyn Quinn interviews people while the story is live but rarely gets the chance to find out what happened next. For these editions of One to One, Carolyn wanted to find out what happens to individuals who've found themselves in the media spotlight and have had to live with intense, unsolicited scrutiny. How do they cope once the media caravan has moved on and they have to try to get on with their lives This week, Carolyn speaks to Claire Derry, the mother of Samuel Woodhead, the British teenager who went missing in the Australian outback in February 2013.