Podcast Episodes

Listener phone in: Boys - what's it's like to be one in 2024?

On today's Woman's Hour phone-in we ask what it's like to be a boy in 2024 and how society is shaping our future men.

On Monday we spoke to Catherine…

1 year, 11 months ago

Woman's Hour special: How is porn shaping our sex lives and relationships?

Over the past few weeks, Woman’s Hour has been having a frank conversation about pornography. Four women spoke about how porn has shaped their relati…

1 year, 11 months ago

Lawyer Harriet Wistrich, Chef Asma Khan, ACL injuries and women

Lawyer Harriet Wistrich is the founder and director of Centre for Women's Justice. She joins Anita Rani to talk about her new book, Sister in Law, wh…

1 year, 11 months ago

Co-parenting, Homelessness and women, Dr Jessica Taylor

Being evicted from your home is an incredibly distressing time for anyone. Something 56-year-old Heidi Dodson is about to experience, she's being evi…

1 year, 11 months ago

Sex and choking, Online Abuse and work, Plastic pollution

Research by internationally-renowned sex expert Dr Debby Herbenick from 2020 found that 21% of women had been choked during sex, with this being near…

1 year, 11 months ago

Boys, Lyra McKee, Perinatal suicide, South African elections

Catherine Carr has two teenage sons and, through talking to them and to other parents of teenaged boys, she became aware that boys were experiencing …

1 year, 11 months ago

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Zeinab Badawi, Fisherman Ashley Mullenger, Stalking, Singing and periods

The deaths of 21-year-old Diane Jones and her two young children, in a house fire in October 1995 shocked the community of Merthyr Tydfil. The police…

1 year, 11 months ago

26/04/2024

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

1 year, 11 months ago

BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story

The Internet Watch Foundation annual report has said that children under six are being manipulated into “disturbing” acts of sexual abuse while paren…

1 year, 11 months ago

Zeinab Badawi, Singing and periods, How is the debate over abortion shaping the US election?

The broadcaster Zeinab Badawi joins Krupa Padhy to discuss her first book, An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence. …

1 year, 11 months ago