Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchChildren with special educational needs and disabilities at academy schools, Kim Cypher, Choreographer Lucy Hind
Academy schools were one of the issues that listeners raised during, and since, Woman’s Hour’s special programme investigating the SEND system for ch…
1 year, 6 months ago
Joan Armatrading, Baroness Lola Young, Melanie Reid
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading joins Nuala McGovern to discuss her 23rd studio album, How Did This Happen and What Does it Now M…
1 year, 6 months ago
Supreme Court hears case on definition of a woman, Barbara Taylor Bradford's life
Judges at the Supreme Court are today considering how women are defined in law in a landmark case brought by Scottish campaigners. It will address wh…
1 year, 6 months ago
Civil rape case against Conor McGregor, Binge drinking, Chappell Roan
The woman who accused the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor of raping her has won her civil case against him. He has been ordered to pay near…
1 year, 6 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Michelle Yoeh, Primary school suspensions, Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh’s career has spanned four decades. Starting out as a martial arts actor, she became a key figure in the Hong Kong action …
1 year, 6 months ago
Adoption, Female Gladiators, Novelist Pyae Moe Thet War
Adopted children may be allowed much closer contact with their birth families in the future as part of “seismic” changes recommended in a new report …
1 year, 6 months ago
Katarina Johnson-Thompson, IVF pioneer, Age of consent in Iraq, Primary School suspensions
Katarina Johnson-Thompson is the double World and double Commonwealth Games heptathon champion. This year she won the Olympic silver medal in Paris, …
1 year, 6 months ago
Gillian Anderson on women's sexual fantasies, Nurse Bethany Hutchison, Trial of Dominique Pelicot, Filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey
Yesterday, the closing arguments were made in the trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men accused of raping Gisele Pelicot - a case that has not…
1 year, 6 months ago
Lucy Manning, Zainab Johnson, Robyn Malcolm
In Lucy Manning’s words, it started with a phone call... A call from a withheld number late at night in October 2022 where the unknown male caller ap…
1 year, 6 months ago
Michelle Yeoh, Breastfeeding and depression, Sandi Toksvig and Catherine Mayer
Oscar-winning Michelle Yeoh’s career has spanned four decades. Starting out as a martial arts actor, she became a key figure in the Hong Kong action …
1 year, 6 months ago