Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWomen's tennis in Saudi Arabia, 'Dear Sirs', Women and advertising
This week sees the culmination of the women's tennis season as the WTA finals are held, somewhat controversially, in Saudi Arabia. So far, top seed A…
1 year, 6 months ago
Julien Alfred, Author Eliza Clark, Film director Natalie Hewit
The Women's 100 metre Olympic champion Julien Alfred joins Clare McDonnell in the studio. Her gold medal in Paris was the first time Saint Lucia had …
1 year, 6 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Hunger strike, Anna Maxwell Martin, US Election and women, Joeli Brearley, Mary McCall Jr
British-Egyptian activist and Maths professor Laila Soueif has been on hunger strike for the past month to protest her son Alaa’s incarceration in Eg…
1 year, 6 months ago
Saoirse Ronan’s viral moment, Mother on hunger strike, Donna Ockendon and her daughter Phoebe
Saoirse Ronan’s comments on the Graham Norton Show last week when she interjected in a conversation about self-defence and highlighted the issue of w…
1 year, 6 months ago
The impact of the Budget on women, Nuzo Onoh, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Following the announcement of Labour’s first budget in fourteen years – and the first Budget announced by a woman Chancellor – we hear how women acro…
1 year, 7 months ago
Online scams, US election, Mary McCall Jr
The business owner Martha Keith found her products being sold fraudulently online. She tells Nuala how she set about trying to take control of the si…
1 year, 7 months ago
Joeli Brearley, US elections and women, Ballon d'Or Feminin winners
Sacked from her job by voicemail the day after she informed her employer she was pregnant Joeli Brearley set up Pregnant Then Screwed to end pregnanc…
1 year, 7 months ago
Is the Women's Equality Party disbanding? Anna Maxwell Martin, Sexual Assault Referral Centres
The Women’s Equality Party is urging members to vote to close down the party next month, just under 10 years after it began. The founders say financi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vanessa Feltz, SEND best practice: what is working?, Rivals
Vanessa Feltz has been a fixture on TV and radio for three decades. Now she has written a memoir, Vanessa Bares All, which charts the many ups and do…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vanessa Feltz, Saudi Arabia, Medieval women
Vanessa Feltz has been a fixture on our TV screens and radio stations – not to mention tabloid headlines – for three decades. Now she has written a m…
1 year, 7 months ago