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More than 100 Labour MPs are calling this morning for the Government to put up gambling taxes to pay for scrapping the two child cap on universal credit. Lifting the cap would cost an estimated 拢3 billion a year. Chancellor Rachel Reeves already has a 拢20 to 拢30 billion deficit to try and balance in the November budget. So, should she do it? Anita Rani talks to Iain Watson, 麻豆社 Political Correspondent, and Director of policy, rights and advocacy at Child Poverty Action Group, Sara Ogilvie.

Professor Edith Heard is the new Director of the Francis Crick Institute, the UK鈥檚 flagship biomedical centre. Passionate about women鈥檚 biology, she's taking over at a time when debates over science seem to get hotter by the day. Resources are under strain too, not just money in the midst of high inflation but also the pressure to keep the best scientists working here in the UK. She tells Woman鈥檚 Hour about how she got here and her plans for the future.

The Librarians is a new documentary examining the rise of campaign groups calling to ban books from school and public libraries in the USA. Anita talks to film maker Kym Snyder and librarian Amanda Jones.

Oyinkan Braithwaite鈥檚 debut novel My Sister the Serial Killer was nominated for the Women鈥檚 and Booker prizes in 2019. Now she鈥檚 back with another novel on similarly dark themes but explored in a markedly different way. Cursed Daughters is about a legacy of heartache and broken relationships that comes to define one family in Nigeria. She joins Anita.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Corinna Jones