Podcast Episodes

Tilda Swinton, Homelessness, Gwenda's Garage Musical, Romance Scams

Tilda Swinton is one of the UK’s most singular and celebrated performers. Over four decades she has delivered unforgettable and varied screen performances, notably Orlando, The Chronicles of Narnia,…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Global surrogacy, Karen Carney, Low-income & SEND, Talc trial

A major UK group litigation has been launched against Johnson & Johnson, involving approximately 3,000 claimants who allege they developed cancers due to asbestos-contaminated talc products. The comp…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Liz Kendall MP, Women & Tourette Syndrome, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Singing to help postnatal depression

Only about 20% of UK tech workers are women. That's from a study by WeAreTechWomen & management consultants Oliver Wyman, which also found between 40,000 and 60,000 women leave the UK’s tech sector e…

Published on 2 months ago

Bobbi Brown, Domestic abuse & family courts, Black maternal health film

Bobbi Brown is a make-up artist turned entrepreneur who created her now famous eponymous line in 1990. Her fresh-faced approach went against 80s and 90s trends at the time for bright colour and conto…

Published on 2 months ago

Dads and working flexibly, Baroness Margaret Thatcher centenary, Diane Keaton legacy

Half of working dads feel nervous asking for time off to care for their children, more than 20% have been asked ‘where’s your wife/partner?’ when requesting flexibility and 44% say employers treat mo…

Published on 2 months ago

Weekend Woman's Hour: Sally Wainwright, Kellie Bright, AI girlfriends, lessons from the Pelicot trial

100m sprinter Bebe Jackson, 19, won a bronze medal on her debut at the IPC World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, India, last week. Bebe was born with congenital talipes equinovarus, widely kno…

Published on 2 months ago

Pelicot trial, Lucy Guo, Bebe Jackson, Travel writing

A court in southern France has increased the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot. Gisèle was drugged by her then-husband Dominique for over a decade and …

Published on 2 months ago

Tanita Tikaram, Sally Wainwright, Nature and kids with SEND

NB: The music in this broadcast has been removed from this podcast for rights reasons.

In Sally Wainwright’s new BBC drama Riot Women, a group of women in mid-life escape the pressures of caring for p…

Published on 2 months ago

Kemi Badenoch's leadership, Manon Garcia on Gisele Pelicot, Joy Gregory

As Kemi Badenoch prepares to address Conservative Party conference for the second time this week, Nuala McGovern reflects on her first year as leader of the party and Leader of the Opposition, with B…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

AI 'girlfriends', Japan's PM designate, Hope Reese, Musica Secreta

Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence company xAI recently introduced two sexually explicit chatbots. He's a high-profile presence in a growing field where developers are banking on users interacting a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago