Podcast Episodes

Beth Mead, Women and choral music, Eating disorders

Over half of female footballers book pitches, only to find they’ve been reallocated to men. With twice as many women as men considering quitting the …

1 year, 10 months ago

Birth trauma, Sleepwalking, Lolita Chakrabarti

How many women have decided not to have more children after a traumatic birth? The UK’s first inquiry into traumatic childbirth has found that too o…

1 year, 10 months ago

Royal Navy Exclusive, Sarah Atherton MP, Tamsin Greig, singer-songwriter Lauren Mayberry

A female officer in the military says she was raped by a senior officer who was responsible in the Royal Navy for behaviours and values, including se…

1 year, 10 months ago

Weekend Woman's Hour: Foster caring, Liz Carr on assisted dying, Sabrina Ali on Dugzi Dayz, Rachel Chinouriri

The number of children in care is continuing to rise each year, and thousands of new foster carers are needed. The comedian and writer Kiri Pritchard…

1 year, 10 months ago

Whooping cough, Shirley Conran, Lying, Afghanistan tourism

Five babies have died from whooping cough this year as cases continue to rise in England. Medical doctor Dr Saleyha Ahsan, who currently has whooping…

1 year, 10 months ago

Liz Carr on assisted dying, Money in relationships, Singer Rachel Chinouriri

The debate on assisted dying is often framed around the issues of choice for the terminally ill, but what about the rights of the disabled ? Actor an…

1 year, 10 months ago

Safer sport for women, novelist Nadine Matheson, Sabrina Ali on Dugzi Dayz

Now that women’s sport is advancing, we need clear safeguarding rules for women and girls about what is and isn’t okay when it comes to talking about…

1 year, 10 months ago

Losing your possessions, Defining honour abuse, Foster caring

What’s like to start again with nothing? On New Year's Eve of 2018, journalist Helen Chandler-Wilde lost everything she owned in a storage unit fire …

1 year, 10 months ago

How to age well: A Woman's Hour special

We are all ageing, if we're lucky, so in this Woman's Hour special programme, we're exploring how women can age well.

Anita Rani is joined by a pane…

1 year, 11 months ago

Weekend Woman's Hour: Co-parenting, Plastic pollution, ACL injuries, Perinatal suicide

What is it really like to be a co-parent? Hayley Allen’s son spends the weekdays with his dad and she takes care of him at the weekends. Carly Harris…

1 year, 11 months ago