Podcast Episodes

Dame Jenni Murray remembered, Elizabeth Moss and Kate Mara, Jane McDonald

We start today's programme with the sad news that Dame Jenni Murray has died. For 33 years she brought her sharp intellect, wit and passion for women…

1 week, 4 days ago

FIFA's women's football tournaments, Glasgow fire, Pilgrimages

New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach. The requ…

1 week, 6 days ago

FIFA's women's football tournaments, Women in Cuba, Adoption

New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach. The requ…

2 weeks ago

Glasgow fire, Sibling relationships, Artist LR Vandy

**This programme has been edited since originally broadcast**

This month a legal case in the High Court has shed light on an industry of so-called 'Ch…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

Meningitis, FA's Director of Women's Football, Abortion amendments

According to the UK Health Security Agency, five new cases of meningitis have been confirmed in Kent. Two people have died in the outbreak. Health Se…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

AI heart health mammogram, Prison family visits, The manosphere

Researchers in Australia have developed an AI tool that means a routine mammogram can also monitor your heart health. The study, published in Heart, …

2 weeks, 3 days ago

16/03/2026

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Leeds Maternity Review, Forgetting birthdays, the term ‘rough wooing’, Ashley Dalton MP, Maimuna Memon

The health secretary Wes Streeting has appointed senior midwife Donna Ockenden to lead a review into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teachin…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

CPR on women, AI toys, Maimuna Memon

New figures out from Thames Valley Air Ambulance show that women are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR, with one in three female cardiac …

3 weeks ago

Dunblane 30 years on, Catfishing, Forgetting birthdays

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre on Friday, presenter Anita Rani speaks to three women whose lives changed for ever that day; M…

3 weeks, 1 day ago