Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAbortion vote, Crime writer Karin Slaughter, Co-sleeping with older children, Racing driver Abbi Pulling
In the biggest shake-up to reproductive rights in almost 60 years, MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales. This woul…
1 year, 4 months ago
Comedian Rosie Jones, Grooming gangs, Playing outside
We discuss the key recommendations of Baroness Louise Casey's report into child sexual exploitation and abuse, and ask what might change as a result?…
1 year, 4 months ago
Child sex abuse gangs, Older surrogacy, Ranking friends
The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a full national statutory inquiry into child sexual abuse perpetrated by gangs after previously dis…
1 year, 4 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Julianne Moore, Women’s Prize for Fiction winner Yael van der Wouden, ultrarunner Stephanie Case
Julianne Moore has won countless awards and nominations for films like Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, The Hours, as well as winning an Oscar f…
1 year, 4 months ago
Race Across the World, Women's Prize winners, Ute Lemper, Measles at Glasto
Last night the winners of this year’s Women’s Prize were announced. The winner for fiction is Yael van der Wouden for her novel The Safekeep and the …
1 year, 4 months ago
Abortion, Spending Review, Lara Pulver, Yael van der Wouden
Next week not one but two amendments are being brought before MPs, both of which could mean, if passed, that women will no longer be prosecuted for t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Ultrarunner Stephanie Case, Alice Figueiredo, Women's Super League, Cycle tracking apps
Canadian born human rights lawyer, Stephanie Case, went viral online when she finished first place in the women’s section of the Snowdonia ultra-trai…
1 year, 4 months ago
Indecent exposure, Natalie Dormer, World fertility, Author Jessica Stanley
The kidnap, murder and rape of Sarah Everard was deemed a moment of reckoning in 2021. The Angiolini Inquiry, which investigated this case, found tha…
1 year, 4 months ago
Julianne Moore, Forced adoption in China, Nurses vote on pay deal
Julianne Moore has won countless awards and nominations for films like Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, The Hours, as well as winning an Oscar f…
1 year, 4 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Ms Tina Knowles, Tennis at Queens, Dr Grace Spence Green, Bernardine Evaristo
Tina Knowles, the mother of icons Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Solange Knowles and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland, has just published her memoir Matriarch. …
1 year, 4 months ago