Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchComfort: A Woman's Hour Christmas Day special
As this is the season of Comfort & Joy, today’s programme is devoted to the theme of ‘Comfort’. At this time of year when many women are frazzled an…
1 year, 3 months ago
Minette Walters, Menopause supplement adverts, Blake Lively
Bestselling author Minette Walters shot to fame in the 1990s with her award-winning gritty crime novels The Ice House, The Sculptress and The Scold’s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Amy Dowden, Syrian Women's Affairs Office, Nancy in Oliver!
Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Amy Dowden was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer last year, and she shared her treatment journey in a BB…
1 year, 3 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Anne-Marie Duff, Gisele Pelicot, Black female journalists, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Ballet Shoes
It's the rape trial that has shocked the world. Gisèle Pelicot's ex-husband Dominique was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for her rape, alo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Gisèle Pelicot, Trampolinist Bryony Page
Daisy Edgar-Jones and her co-star Paul Mescal rocketed into the public gaze in the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People. Following a …
1 year, 3 months ago
Gisele Pelicot mass rape trial verdicts, Venture capitalist, Ballet Shoes
The verdicts have been handed down in the mass rape trial that has truly shocked and appalled people in France and around the world where 51 men stoo…
1 year, 3 months ago
WASPI women, Puberty blockers, Black female journalists
The government has announced that a ban on the private prescriptions of medicines used to delay puberty to young people questioning their gender in t…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sophie Duker, Sudan sexual violence crisis, The Road Trip
Would you ask your friends to describe you in one word? Comedian Sophie Duker did. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about hearing their responses and…
1 year, 3 months ago
Anne-Marie Duff, Home education, Willpower Detectives, Iran update
Anne-Marie Duff joins Nuala McGovern to talk about her latest stage role in The Little Foxes at London’s Young Vic Theatre. It’s a family drama where…
1 year, 3 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Childcare, Kerry Washington, 80s egg donors, Women triathletes, Inclusive wigs after chemo, Bette & Joan
A new analysis on the quality and quantity of childcare provision in England has revealed that the huge expansion of free childcare currently underwa…
1 year, 3 months ago