Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWoman'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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 months ago
Protests in Turkey, Adolescence, Women in Revolt! exhibition
Last night saw the fifth night of fierce protests across Turkey, after the main rival politician to the country's President Erdogan, was formally arr…
1 year, 5 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Sugababes, Lockdown babies, June Sarpong, History of abortion, Women in construction
The Sugababes started their music career together in 1998 but, after Siobhán left the band in 2001, it wasn't until 2019 that Mutya, Keisha and Siobh…
1 year, 5 months ago
Newborns & communication, Kirsty Coventry, Women in Construction
Long before they can speak, babies are brilliant communicators and all that those who care for them have to do is to listen to them, to be curious ab…
1 year, 5 months ago
Disability and maternity care, Ads in mobile games, Nursery costs, Playwright Julia Grogan
Disabled women in the UK face significant barriers in maternity care, with new research highlighting higher risks of stillbirth, lack of support, and…
1 year, 5 months ago
June Sarpong, Disability benefit changes, Women war artists
Broadcaster June Sarpong co-founded the Women Inspiration and Enterprise Network, and in 2019 was appointed the first BBC Director of Creative Divers…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sugababes, Kate Summerscale & Kamila Shamsie, The History of Abortion
The Sugababes started their music career together in 1998 but, after Siobhán left the band in 2001, it wasn't until 2019 that Mutya, Keisha and Siobh…
1 year, 5 months ago
Lockdown babies, Breast cancer study, Femgore, Chess Masters
Five years on from the first Covid lockdown, what can be done to support the 200,000 ‘Lockdown babies’ born when lockdown was at its most restrictive…
1 year, 5 months ago