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The American singer/songwriter Kesha\u2019s first major success came in 2009 when she was featured on rapper Flo Rida's number-one single "Right Round". She\u2019s since had two number one albums and nine top ten singles including Tik Tok, We R Who We R, "Your Love Is My Drug," "Die Young, and "Timber" with Pitbull. She has earned two GRAMMY nominations. Today she releases her latest album \u2013 Gag Order. She joins Anita to discuss the themes of love, anxiety and spiritual awakening.

In a new study out today, scientists have suggested that humans kissing may have started 4,500 years ago in the ancient Middle East \u2013 that\u2019s 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.\xa0 Anita finds out more from the scientist Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen from the University of Oxford.

The best selling author of the Geek Girl series, Holly Smale, was diagnosed as autistic in 2021, at the age of 39. She said she felt relief that she now has an explanation for why she\u2019s felt she\u2019s never \u201cfitted in\u201d. She couldn\u2019t herself anywhere. She needed to see herself in a book, so she wouldn\u2019t feel so alone. Holly has now written her first adult fiction \u2013 the highly autobiographical, The Cassandra Complex. She joins Anita to explain why it\u2019s important to her that autism is represented in the media.

Anita is joined by another one of the women on our Power List celebrating 30 women in sport. Manisha Tailor is the Assistant Head of Coaching at Championship club Queen's Park Rangers and is the first woman to hold such a position in men's professional football in England. Manisha is also the founder of Swaggarlicious, an organisation that uses community football sessions to engage with minority groups including women and girls, and especially those with mental health challenges.

\u2018Depp vs Heard\u2019 is a three part C4 series that charts the tumultuous defamation trial between Johnny Depp and his former wife Amber Heard that was broadcast live in full. Mixing courtroom footage with the reaction from the millions who viewed it online, it\u2019s a story of twists and turns. And questions if a jury ever be truly fair in the age of social media? The BAFTA-nominated documentary director Emma Cooper, joins Anita from Los Angeles.

Presenter: Anita Rani\nProducer: Louise Corley