Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat is it like to be a woman in prison?
The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood believes “prison isn’t working” for women and wants to reduce the number of female prisoners. So what has gone …
1 year, 1 month ago
Zhenhao Zou case, Sally Phillips, Neonatal Leave,
Chinese PHD student Zhenhao Zou was recently convicted for drugging and raping 10 different women in both London and China. Police only managed to id…
1 year, 1 month ago
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson, Anorexia legal case, Feminist yodelling
One manifesto pledge of the incoming Labour government was to provide over 3000 new nurseries in empty school classrooms in England. The first 300 o…
1 year, 1 month ago
Caitríona Balfe, Child maintenance, Medieval medicine, Kids and happiness
Irish actor Caitríona Balfe was nominated for a Bafta for her performance in Kenneth Branagh’s film Belfast and is also known to many as Claire in ti…
1 year, 1 month ago
Women and Eid, School Refusal Report, Author Marni Appleton
Eid is a celebration of strength and gratitude where Muslims all around the world come together to mark the end of Ramadan. Nuala McGovern is joined …
1 year, 2 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Stacey Dooley, Authors Yuan Yang and Sanam Mahloudji, Adolescence, Gossip, AI, Boxing & domestic violence
In the documentary Growing up Gypsy, Stacey Dooley gets to know three young English Romany Gypsy women. Invited into the traditionally private commun…
1 year, 2 months ago
Stacey Dooley, Lily Gladstone, Ask for Angela, Motherhood
In the documentary Growing up Gypsy Stacey Dooley gets to know three young English Romany Gypsy women. Invited into the traditionally private communi…
1 year, 2 months ago
Woman's Hour special: AI and women's health
Technology journalist and author Lara Lewington asks how artificial intelligence can improve women’s health, and what we are ready for it to do for u…
1 year, 2 months ago
Disability and domestic abuse, Maternity care failings, Authors Labour MP Yuan Yang and Sanam Mahloudji, Gossiping
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to make further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments when she speaks in Parliament later. The governme…
1 year, 2 months ago
Domestic violence, Women & the gig economy, Boxing, UN leadership
Deaths by suicide among victims of domestic abuse in England and Wales have overtaken the number of people killed by an intimate partner, for a secon…
1 year, 2 months ago