Podcast Episodes

Listener Week: Living with a terminal diagnosis, Sex therapy, Hybrid working

It's the final day of Woman's Hour's Listener Week, where all the topics in the programme have been decided by YOU!

Listener Brenda wrote in about her situation: “I would love to hear you talking abou…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Listener Week: Female breadwinners, Attitudes to stepmothers, Traditional craftswomen

Listener Week continues on Woman's Hour as we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to the air.

What happens when a woman earns more than her partner, or is the sole earner i…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Listener Week: MND and women, Not being a granny, Studying later in life

Motor Neurone Disease is a condition that affects nerves found in the brain and spinal cord which tell our muscles what to do. The disease is life shortening and there is no cure. One listener, Diana…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Listener Week: Testosterone, Talking to adult children about abuse, Why we dream

Listener Week continues on Woman's Hour as we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to the air.

Carola got in touch to ask if we could find out more about the benefits of tes…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Listener Week: Seatbelts and busts, Recruitment and AI, Married but living apart

To kick this week off, we heard from listener Melanie Williams. Melanie is forever having to adjust her seatbelt because of her bust size. She worries if she were to be in an accident she would end u…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Lionesses' win & Diane Bronze, Child sex abuse gangs, Michelle Collins, Sara Pascoe, Nicola Benedetti

The Lionesses have made history by becoming the first England football squad to win a major trophy on foreign soil, they successfully defended their European title in Basel last night. The match went…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Hattie Williams, Trump's tariffs, Playwright Shaan Sahota

Hattie Williams lost her mother when she was 18 years old leaving her feeling anchorless and needing to embark on a self-exploratory journey to recover some stability. When she experienced motherhood…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Michelle Collins, Women's Golf, Access to work, Girls Like You

The Women’s Open begins at Royal Porthcawl on the south coast of Wales where over the next four days the biggest names in women's golf will compete to win the fifth and final major of the year. Datsh…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Child sex abuse gangs, Advice overwhelm, Football feminist Karen Dobres

The BBC has found that five women who were exploited by so-called grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time. One woman says she was …

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Lynda La Plante, Women's Rugby World Cup, Sara Pascoe

Lynda La Plante joins Clare McDonnell to discuss her latest novel, The Scene of the Crime, which follows CSI Jessica Russell and her team as they investigate a high-profile robbery and assault in Eas…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago