Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWomen's magazines, Dawn Sturgess, Female funeral directors
For generations of women and girls, glossy magazines have been a guide to clothes, lifestyles, relationships and, of course, sex. Titles like Cosmopo…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sharon D Clarke, SEND teacher training, Black nurses in history
Sharon D Clarke is a triple Olivier award-winning actress currently starring in two separate TV series: My Loverman on BBC One and Ellis on Channel 5…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hurricane response, Meera Syal & Tanika Gupta, Contraception, Neneh Cherry
Hurricane Milton landed today in Florida, battering the US state with winds of around 120 miles per hour. Residents were warned to evacuate for their…
1 year, 7 months ago
Dr Hilary Cass, Actor Alison Steadman, Operation Identify Me, Electro-folk singer Frankie Archer
Dr Hilary Cass, now Baroness Cass, led a four year review into children’s gender identity services in England. Her final report concluded that child…
1 year, 7 months ago
UK Covid inquiry, Sophie Kinsella, Rower Imogen Grant
If you remember the #butnotmaternity campaign during the Covid-19 pandemic you’ll recall that women were sometimes left to give birth without their p…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cush Jumbo, Author Kate Mosse, Sue Gray quits, Women in business
The Prime Minister's chief of staff Sue Gray has left her post and has been replaced by Morgan McSweeney. It's led some papers to claim "the lads hav…
1 year, 7 months ago
Weekend Woman’s Hour: SEND transport, Hair thinning, Women and prison, The Tuam babies scandal: A Woman's Hour Special
Mums who give up work or cut their hours because they have a child with special educational needs and disabilities say problems with school transport…
1 year, 7 months ago
Lebanon latest, Fell running, Breast cancer poetry
The current conflict in Lebanon has forced thousands of women and children in refugee camps to once again leave their homes for their own safety. Kyl…
1 year, 7 months ago
SEND transport, Lucy Worsley, Children of the Cult, T20
Mums who give up work or cut their hours because they have a child with special educational needs and disabilities say problems with school transport…
1 year, 7 months ago
Women and Prison, Acid Attacks, Women piano composers, Dr Beth Shapiro
In her speech at Labour conference the Secretary of State for Justice Shabana Mahmood said: "for women, prison isn’t working." To discuss her latest …
1 year, 7 months ago