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Woman's Hour
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.Listen to our new series of conversations, The Woman's Hour Guide to Life, on BBC Sounds - your toolkit for the juggle, struggle and everything in between: www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife
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Boxer Francesca Hennessy, NEETS, Painter Caroline Walker
Francesca Hennessy is the 21-year-old shaking up women’s boxing. Nicknamed the 'Billion Dollar Baby', she’s unbeaten in her first six professional fi...
Saskia Reeves, Childminders, Women in Camps
Childminders play a vital role in the early years of children’s lives, offering care, stability and a familiar face during those formative years. But...
The pension gap, Rape trial delays, Author Harriet Lane
Over a third of women could face poverty in retirement due to a growing gender gap in private pensions, according to a report from Scottish Widows, wi...
17/11/2025
Former US magazine editors-in-chief Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill were both ‘let go’ from their respective jobs. They felt blindsided, devastated a...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Christine Flack, Women’s Football Stadiums, Pelvic Girdle Pain, Fatherhood, Eleanor of Castile
Caroline Flack was a Bafta-winning TV presenter, host of shows including Love Island and The X Factor. In February of 2020, she took her own life ahea...
Women pursuing peace, Pelvic girdle pain, New musical Coven
Pelvic Girdle Pain, also known as pubic symphysis dysfunction, affects an estimated one in five pregnant women. It is often mild but can sometimes be...
13/11/2025
Runa Khan is a globally recognised leader in social innovation. She founded Friendship in 2002, an NGO helping marginalised communities in Bangladesh....
Fatherhood, Laura Mulvey, Women's football stadiums
As part of the Radio 4 Fatherhood season, Clare McDonnell and her guests discuss the role of fatherhood in men’s lives. Darren Harriott is a 37-year-o...
Illegal weight-loss drugs, Actor Jackie Clune, Birth scrolls
The UK's medicines watchdog has said criminal gangs in the UK have started making their own weight-loss drugs, with packaging and branding designed to...
Christine Flack, New Ofsted school grading, Emma Barnett
Caroline Flack was a Bafta-winning TV presenter, host of shows including Love Island and The X Factor. In February of 2020, she took her own life ahea...
Margaret Atwood memoir, Cat Burns, Choking Porn Law, Dame Elaine Paige
In Margaret Atwood’s 64-year career she has published world-renowned, prescient novels like The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace and Blind Assa...
Elaine Paige, Nova Reid on Jocelyn Barrow, Pauline Collins
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A grande dame of musical theatre, Elaine Paige made her W...
Cat Burns, Pakinstan's period tax, Mary Earps
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You might recognise Cat Burns from The Celebrity Traitors...
05/11/2025
In Margaret Atwood’s 64-year career she has published world-renowned, prescient novels like The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace and Blind Assa...
04/11/2025
A survey of boys in secondary schools by Male Allies UK has found that just over a third said they were considering the idea of an AI friend. With gro...
03/11/2025
World Health Organisation figures say one in six people are affected by infertility. Fertility Matters at Work, who provide training for fertility sup...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Malala Yousafzai, Faulty breast implants, Petula Clark
Thrust onto the public stage at 15 years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala Yousafzai became an international icon for resilien...
31/10/2025
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Thrust onto the public stage at 15 years old after the Ta...
France rape law change, Women and alcohol dependency, Amina Khayyam
The French parliament has just ratified an amendment to add consent to the legal definition of rape and sexual assault. The issue gained national atte...
29/10/2025
The BBC has discovered widespread delays in a scheme designed to tell people whether their partners have a history of being abusive. Known as Clare's...
28/10/2025
Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, has accused ten people of posting malicious comments about her, claiming she was a born a m...
27/10/2025
Singer, actor and performer, Petula Clark’s career has spanned over eight decades. She sang to wartime troops in the 40s, was a 1950s child star, bec...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Landmark policy change in the Family Court, Essex Witches, Women rowing across the Pacific
The Essex witch trials represent one of the darkest chapters in British history. A new Sky History series, Witches of Essex, revisits the real lives o...
First mum in space, Tiggy Walker, Recruiting women to Formula 1
50 years ago today - in 1975 - 90% of women in Iceland took part in a nationwide protest over inequality. Instead of going to the office, doing housew...
Wes Streeting, Virginia Giuffre memoir, Pacific Ocean rowers
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting joins Anita Rani to announce new government policy on women’s health.
Anita speaks...
The Nocebo effect, Women sports photographers, Parental involvement in family courts
We’ve heard about the placebo effect, when belief in a treatment makes us feel better, but what do you know about the nocebo effect? It’s when our neg...
Grooming gangs, Eve Muirhead, Lily King, Menopause
Two sexual abuse survivors have resigned from their roles on the national inquiry into grooming gangs. Fiona Goddard and Ellie Reynolds both stood dow...
Maternity services inquiry, Women in architecture, Witches
The government has announced an independent inquiry into repeated failings in maternity services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Earlier this y...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Tilda Swinton, Dads at work, Karen Carney, Living with Tourette Syndrome, Bobbi Brown
Half of working dads feel nervous asking for time off to care for their children, more than 20% have been asked ‘where’s your wife/partner?’ when requ...
Tilda Swinton, Homelessness, Gwenda's Garage Musical, Romance Scams
Tilda Swinton is one of the UK’s most singular and celebrated performers. Over four decades she has delivered unforgettable and varied screen perform...
Global surrogacy, Karen Carney, Low-income & SEND, Talc trial
A major UK group litigation has been launched against Johnson & Johnson, involving approximately 3,000 claimants who allege they developed cancers due...
Liz Kendall MP, Women & Tourette Syndrome, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Singing to help postnatal depression
Only about 20% of UK tech workers are women. That's from a study by WeAreTechWomen & management consultants Oliver Wyman, which also found between 40,...
Bobbi Brown, Domestic abuse & family courts, Black maternal health film
Bobbi Brown is a make-up artist turned entrepreneur who created her now famous eponymous line in 1990. Her fresh-faced approach went against 80s and 9...
Dads and working flexibly, Baroness Margaret Thatcher centenary, Diane Keaton legacy
Half of working dads feel nervous asking for time off to care for their children, more than 20% have been asked ‘where’s your wife/partner?’ when requ...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Sally Wainwright, Kellie Bright, AI girlfriends, lessons from the Pelicot trial
100m sprinter Bebe Jackson, 19, won a bronze medal on her debut at the IPC World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, India, last week. Bebe was bor...
Pelicot trial, Lucy Guo, Bebe Jackson, Travel writing
A court in southern France has increased the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot. Gisèle was drugged by...
Tanita Tikaram, Sally Wainwright, Nature and kids with SEND
NB: The music in this broadcast has been removed from this podcast for rights reasons.
In Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women, a group o...
Kemi Badenoch's leadership, Manon Garcia on Gisele Pelicot, Joy Gregory
As Kemi Badenoch prepares to address Conservative Party conference for the second time this week, Nuala McGovern reflects on her first year as leader ...
AI 'girlfriends', Japan's PM designate, Hope Reese, Musica Secreta
Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence company xAI recently introduced two sexually explicit chatbots. He's a high-profile presence in a growing field wh...
Kellie Bright, Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, Summer of Sport
EastEnders actor Kellie Bright took part in a Woman’s Hour special last year which asked whether the SEND system is working for children with special...