Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.Listen to The Woman's Hour Guide to Life on BBC Sounds: https://bbc.in/4nTa7W8
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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...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Melinda French Gates, Rebecca Solnit, 'Carents', Actor Tracey Ullman
Melinda French Gates is on a crusade to boost research into women's health. She co-founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 which has, to...
Melinda French Gates, Manchester synagogue attack, Rochdale grooming
Melinda French Gates is the most well known and powerful woman in philanthropy. The American co-founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000...
Met Police, Secrets, Dirty Looks exhibition
Secret filming by the BBC’s Panorama programme last night revealed evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at one of L...
01/10/2025
Gloria Allred is one of the best known women’s rights lawyers in the US. She tells Nuala McGovern what has happened to victims' voices amongst the co...
Rugby player Meg Jones, ‘Carents’, Actor Andrea Riseborough
World Cup winner and nominee for World Rugby Player of the Year, Meg Jones, joins Nuala McGovern. Following the Red Roses' win at the weekend, many ha...
Rugby World Cup, Tracey Ullman, Janet Skinner, Ava Pickett
The Rugby World Cup has been the culmination of a stellar summer of women's sport and a second huge win for an England women's side. And there's lots...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Annie Lennox, Motorway anxiety, New play Punch
Journalist Mary McCarthy has been avoiding motorways for years, even planning her life around how to dodge them. She's discovered it’s a far more comm...
Penny Lancaster, New play Punch, Rugby grounds-women
Penny Lancaster is a special constable, TV personality and photographer. She’s also married to rock legend Rod Stewart. Penny talks to Anita Rani abou...
Child benefit cap, Prof Edith Heard, Book banning
More than 100 Labour MPs are calling this morning for the Government to put up gambling taxes to pay for scrapping the two child cap on universal cred...
Post childbirth and sex, Juliet Stevenson, Ruby Tui
There has been a renewed conversation regarding sex after childbirth following a recent episode of the CBeebies Parenting Helpline podcast which tackl...
Annie Lennox, Paracetamol in pregnancy, Liquid BBLs, Phubbing
The multi award-winning singer songwriter Annie Lennox has been part of the musical landscape for almost 50 years, from her days in The Tourists, to t...
Driving anxiety, Erika Kirk profile, Marie Antoinette style
Journalist Mary McCarthy has been avoiding motorways for years, even planning her life around how to dodge them. She tells Kylie Pentelow how she disc...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Baroness Hale, Race Across the World, Cryptic pregnancy, Patricia Lockwood, Sudanese women, Susie Dent
How well does the law serve women? That’s a question Nuala puts to Brenda Marjorie Hale, The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE a former judg...
Surgeons, Susie Dent, Model diversity, Nepal's Prime Minister
If your doctor or surgeon was convicted of rape you might expect them to be struck off. But that isn't always the case according to new research out...
Nuclear energy, SEND reform, Anita on Celebrity Race Across the World
A group of cross-party MPs has called for root and branch transformation of the way mainstream education caters for children and young people with spe...
Cryptic pregnancy, actor Karen Pittman, writer Nikita Gill, Agnes Wanjiru
To so many women the symptoms of pregnancy are instant, intense and unmistakeable; however some make it the full nine months without having any idea t...
16/09/2025
As Donald Trump arrives in the UK for his second state visit, we examine how women feel about the US President now and how the Epstein scandal might f...
Patricia Lockwood, SEND rally, Maternity review, Kathrine Switzer
Patricia Lockwood is a poet, memoirist and novelist whose work straddles the literary world and the wilds of the internet. Patricia first went viral w...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Davina McCall, Papua New Guinea, Jung Chang, Fawning, Sophie Ellis Bextor
Davina McCall, one of TV’s most popular presenters has a new book out, Birthing, co-written with the midwife, Marley Henry. Davina joined Anita Rani t...
Davina McCall, Highland Games, Essex accents
Davina McCall, one of TV’s most popular presenters has a new book out, Birthing, co-written with the midwife, Marley Henry. Davina joins Anita Rani to...
Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pregnancy drug DES, Novelist Heather Morris
For decades thousands of pregnant women across the UK were prescribed the drug Diethlystilbestrol or DES, a synthetic hormone that was meant to help p...
Noel Clarke libel case, Bras after cancer, Comedian Emma Doran
On 22 August, the High court rejected Noel Clarke’s claim that accusations against him by more than 20 women were false and part of a conspiracy.
Jung Chang, Labour deputy leader race, Jaysley Beck's mother.
Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, the epic family memoir that followed the lives of Jung, her mother and grandmother through China's 20th century, was banned i...
Angela Rayner fallout, Do we need to take creatine? Papua New Guinea
The fallout from Angela Rayner's departure continues to dominate the headlines today as Labour's National Executive Committee is expected to meet to a...
Weekend Woman’s Hour: actor Robin Wright, life after a parent’s suicide, disliking your child's friends
Actor Robin Wright joined Nuala McGovern to discuss directing and starring in new series The Girlfriend, based on the book by Michelle Frances. Best k...
Menopause and severe depression, Disliking your child's friends, Giorgio Armani
In the last of our series on life after suicide, our reporter Jo Morris meets Stef whose mother took her own life when Stef was 19. On experiencing s...
Afghanistan earthquake, Friendship anxiety, Invasive Species play
It has been four days since the huge 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck the mountainous eastern region of Afghanistan, near the city of Jalalabad. Over 1...
American Vogue's new editor, Sandie Peggie tribunal, Sabrina Carpenter's lyrics, Life after a parent's suicide
There's a new woman deciding what's hot and what's not in the world of fashion. Chloe Malle has been appointed as the head of US Vogue - the biggest j...
Femicide Census, Period Pain, Eve Myles, Forced Adoption
New figures from the latest Femicide Census out are out today. It records the killings of women. It shows that 122 women, that’s more than 2 women a w...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Forced adoptions, Author Paula Byrne, Is rugby safe?, Stalking and heart disease, Wool Sourcing
The former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has added his voice to calls for an apology for what he has called the state's role in the "terrible tragedy" o...
Childcare, Robin Wright on The Girlfriend, Life after a loved one's suicide
As of today, eligible working parents in England can access 30 funded hours of childcare – in term time only - for children aged nine months to four y...