Helen Roy, Fellow at the Claremont Institute, discusses the spiritual loss of single sex spaces and the courage of motherhood. Topics include challenges in modern motherhood, gender roles in French peasant culture, embracing the complexity of motherhood, home birthing culture, and personal reflections on pregnancy and surrender.

Helen Roy, one of the chairs of a report on invasive species, reveals the shocking extent of the damage caused by more than 37,000 alien species introduced by humans. Linda Partridge from the Royal Society discusses the UK's rejoining of the EU's research funding program. Mahesh Anand explains India's space ambitions. Helen Roberts explores how cognitive biases affect our responses to weather warnings.