ESSENTIAL Listening

One of the best things about being a stay-at-home dad (at least part of the time – Karen and I are both freelance and split the childcare) is catching the mighty Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. I've just caught up with a programme from Friday 13th June in which Tony Parsons and a variety of fathers and "experts" talked frankly about dadding. Fascinating, moving, insightful (three words you don't always associate with Tony Parsons), if you can still get it on Listen Again, it's the best programme I've ever heard on the topic. It may also still be available on podcast. The Woman's Hour website is at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour.