Podcast Episodes

Waspi women, Dr Jen Gunter, The Liverbirds, Child poverty

A long-awaited report on how women born in the 1950s were affected by increases to their retirement age - the so-called WASPI women, which stands for…

2 years, 5 months ago

Baby loss certificates, 'Women's intuition', Carolynne Hunter & energy bills

On 27 February, Emma Barnett spoke to Zoe Clark-Coates, who runs the baby loss and bereavement charity The Mariposa Trust, about her campaign for bab…

2 years, 5 months ago

Actor Vicky Knight, Conscription, Author Lesley Pearse

The Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is today delivering a speech in which she’ll promise to ‘reform the Treasury’. If Labour were to win the next Gen…

2 years, 5 months ago

Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series

Dame Laura Kenny, Britain's most decorated female Olympian, talks to Emma Barnett about her sporting career, motherhood and her decision to quit cycl…

2 years, 5 months ago

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Irish folk singer Cara Dillon, The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Maximalism

Cara Dillon won the All Ireland singing trophy aged only 14 and has gone on to receive countless awards and accolades including Album Of The Year at …

2 years, 5 months ago

Men & porn, Women's Diaries, South Korea birth rate

As part of our ongoing series on pornography and how it’s shaping our relationships, we’ve heard from many of our female listeners whose attitudes an…

2 years, 5 months ago

Folk singer Cara Dillon, Diane Abbott and racist abuse, Haiti

Folk singer Cara Dillon joins Emma Barnett to discuss her book and a new album – Coming Home – which explores themes of family, identity and home.

H…

2 years, 5 months ago

IVF clinic license suspended, Porn series, 'Queens' wildlife programme

A new law will be introduced in the House of Commons at lunchtime today to clear the names of the hundreds of sub-postmasters wrongly convicted for t…

2 years, 5 months ago

Body shaming in dance, Author Charlotte Wood, Mothers’ Manifesto

A group of mums called Mothers' Manifesto are on day three of a five-day hunger strike in front of Parliament. They’re trying to draw attention to fo…

2 years, 5 months ago

The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Jennie Lee MP, England Rugby player Meg Jones

For the first time, four mums are speaking out about what it was like to be at the centre of a conspiracy that went viral, even reaching the USA. Ac…

2 years, 5 months ago