Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Maternity care, Friends 30th anniversary, Breast implant illness
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Maternity failings are becoming more widespread in England - we hear from a midwife.
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Saoirse Ronan, Nikki Doucet on women鈥檚 football, JoJo, Vaccinations
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan on her latest role in the film The Outrun.
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Kim Cattrall, Sex offender treatment, At-home cervical screening, Author Sarah Pearse
Tue 17 Sep 2024
The Sex and the City actor on her new role as CIA agent Eloise Page on Radio 4.
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Sandi Toksvig, Breast cancer study, Carrie Hope Fletcher
Mon 16 Sep 2024
The writer, comic and TV host on chainsaws, chosen families, and a social media blackout.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracy-Ann Oberman, the SEND system, Sarah Owen MP
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Actor Tracy-Ann Oberman on her return to the square.
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Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, Adoption breakdown, Visual artist Bharti Kher, Fawzia Mirza
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Karen Maguire speaks out about the breakdown of her adoption of a two-year-old boy.
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New chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, Tracy Chevalier, France rape trial
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Sarah Owen MP joins Anita Rani after being elected chair on Wednesday.
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Carol Vorderman, Film director Ellen Kuras, SEND provision for black and Asian minority ethnic families.
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Director Ellen Kuras on her new film about the pioneering WWII photographer Lee Miller.
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Is the SEND system working for children with special educational needs and disabilities?
Tue 10 Sep 2024
Minister for School Standards, Catherine McKinnell responds to mums of children with SEND.
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Andrew Tate investigation, Prisoners early release scheme, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Paralympics wrap up
Mon 9 Sep 2024
New allegations against controversial influencer Andrew Tate.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Breast implant rare cancer risk, Ellen Burstyn, Paralympian medallists
Sat 7 Sep 2024
The women suing a breast implant manufacturer over alleged links with a rare cancer.
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Rebecca Cheptegei's killing, Alison Lapper, Ellen Burstyn
Fri 6 Sep 2024
What Rebecca Cheptegei's death means for female athletes in East Africa.
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Eluned Morgan, Female right-wing US campaigners, The history of understanding women's bodies
Thu 5 Sep 2024
Anita Rani talks to Eluned Morgan, the first minister of Wales.
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Breast implant rare cancer risk, Gemma Arterton, Nonna鈥檚 cookbook
Wed 4 Sep 2024
The women suing a breast implant manufacturer over alleged links with a rare cancer.
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Ruth Perry's sister on Ofsted review, Paralympian medallists, Director Susanne Bier
Tue 3 Sep 2024
Professor Julia Waters reacts to a review into her sister's death.
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Ofsted, Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen, 'Mum friends'
Mon 2 Sep 2024
Reaction as one or two-word Ofsted inspection grades for England's schools are scrapped.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: Kaos with Janet McTeer, Sisters Lina and Laviai Nielsen, India protests, Post Office Scandal
Sat 31 Aug 2024
Actor Janet McTeer stars as Hera, Queen of the Gods, in new series Kaos.
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Nicki Chapman, Los Bitchos, Post Office Scandal
Fri 30 Aug 2024
Presenter Nicki Chapman on her new memoir and two decades in the music industry.
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Kaos with Janet McTeer, India protests, author Clare Chambers
Thu 29 Aug 2024
Stage and film actor Janet McTeer stars as Hera, Queen of the gods, in new series Kaos.
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Bel Powley and Susan Wokoma, Genre fiction: Spy novels and thrillers, Jenny Ryan
Wed 28 Aug 2024
Bel Powley and Susan Wokoma on their new play about why we fall in love.
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Paralympics preview, Master of King's Music Errollyn Wallen, Shifters
Tue 27 Aug 2024
Which female athletes are tipped for success at the Paralympics?
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Sisters: A Woman鈥檚 Hour special
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Nuala McGovern explores sibling bonds, rivalries and finding sisterhood outside family
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Weekend Woman's Hour Listener Week: Van Life, Risky sports, Widows Fire, Pets as therapy, Tummies
Sat 24 Aug 2024
Listener Siobhan Daniels on living in a motorhome and exploring the UK
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Listener Week: Sex in your 70s, Risky sports, Cost of men and women's haircuts
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Elaine is in her seventies and her partner would like to resume a sexual relationship.
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Listener Week: Leaving a legacy, Periods through history, Belly dancing
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Listener Bettie on how one moment changed her life鈥檚 trajectory.
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Listener Week: Widow's Fire, DNA discoveries, Decluttering backlash
Wed 21 Aug 2024
A listener shares her experience of hyper-arousal in the midst of grief
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Listener Week: Tummies, Later in life lesbians, Long Covid
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Looking at our relationships with our tummies, and why it can be so complicated.
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Listener Week: Van life, Surrogacy, Women and stonemasonary
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Listener Siobhan Daniels on living in a motorhome and exploring the UK
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Olympian Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Science fiction, Paralympian Jodie Grinham
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Olympic medallist, weightlifter Emily Campbell talks about her success at the Games.
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Kyla Harris, Mania and perimenopause, Daughters documentary, Maternity clothes
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Co-creator and star of new 成人快手 comedy series, Kyla Harris, joins Jessica.
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