Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFailures in maternity care, Spain's Princess Leonor turns 18, Women's Ballon d'Or
A group of families affected by failures in NHS maternity care are calling for a full statutory public inquiry into maternity safety in England. Emil…
2 years, 5 months ago
Bianca Williams, Sandra Hüller, Living with your parents too long
Bianca Williams and her partner, fellow athlete Ricardo dos Santos, were stopped outside their home in London in July 2020. They had their three-mont…
2 years, 5 months ago
Weekend Woman's Hour: Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Rescuing seal pups, Tell-all celebrity memoirs
Leigh-Anne Pinnock - a name you may know, as a member of one of the biggest girl bands in the world, Little Mix. This year - almost two years since t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Black British Book Festival, Gesbeen Mohammad
Leigh-Anne Pinnock has embarked on her own solo career, almost two years after her band, Little Mix, called a hiatus - and has already released two s…
2 years, 5 months ago
Tell-all celebrity memoirs, child poverty, and 'de-banking'
Britney Spears has been in the news again after spilling personal stories in a memoir. Are women being pressured to overshare in order to sell books?…
2 years, 5 months ago
Israel-Gaza war, Monica Dolan, Kathryn Mannix
As the Israel-Gaza war continues, aid groups are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as power shortages threaten the lives of vulnerable patients, includ…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ruth Birch and Julia Curry, Liza Mundy, Lyse Doucet and Tal Hochman, Cindy Thomas and Laura Barton
Liza Mundy is the bestselling author of Code Girls, a book about the American women who broke codes during the Second World War. Her new book details…
2 years, 5 months ago
Ukrainian children in Russia, Fanny Mendelssohn, Men designing clothes for women
Ukraine claims it has identified 20,000 children who it alleges have been abducted by Russia since the start of the war. Arrest warrants have been is…
2 years, 5 months ago
Weekend Woman's Hour: Coleen Rooney, IVF add-ons, Online safety, Talking on the phone, Singer Mica Millar
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has launched a ratings system to let patients see which IVF add-ons are backed-up by evidence…
2 years, 5 months ago
Maternity services, Resigning as a bridesmaid, Mica Millar, Poet Safiya Sinclair
A new report out today from the CQC - the Care Quality Commission - says that almost two thirds of maternity units provide dangerously substandard ca…
2 years, 5 months ago