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Weekend Woman's Hour: Windrush Women, Tracey Emin, Irene Tracey, Bridget Christie, Working Women in India, Glastonbury
On Thursday, the UK celebrated the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush which made the 5,000 mile journey from the Caribbean to Eng…
2 years, 9 months ago
Woman's Hour Live from Glastonbury!
For Woman's Hour's first ever live broadcast from Worthy Farm Anita is joined by BBC 6 Music's Jamz Supernova. Jamz gives Anita her top tips and talk…
2 years, 9 months ago
Tracey Emin, Divas, Skateboarders, Know Your Place, France drug rape
As visitors walk through the doors of the newly reopened National Portrait Gallery in London, they will see 45 hand-drawn portraits of women by Briti…
2 years, 9 months ago
'Victoria's' story, Child height, Medical tactile examiners in India, Professor Irene Tracey - University of Oxford
Nuala speaks to a woman who discovered by chance that her fiancé was secretly filming her naked in the home they shared. Victoria, not her real name…
2 years, 9 months ago
Life for women in India, latest on the Windrush scandal, women and napping and access to therapy records in rape investigatios
Nuala McGovern talks to Rosa Abraham & Rituparna Chakraborty about the fact that nearly half of the population in India is female, but the number of …
2 years, 9 months ago
Bridget Christie, Windrush Women, Helen and Rob in the Archers
Comedian Bridget Christie’s stand-up has been credited with putting the funny in feminism. You might know her from Taskmaster or Ghosts. Now she’s …
2 years, 9 months ago
Cate Blanchett on Glenda Jackson, Susanna Hoffs, Yasmeen Lari, Power Lister Jo Tongue, Eco-grief, Lisa Squire
Thousands of people gathered together on Thursday night to attend a vigil for those killed in the Nottingham attacks. The mothers of the murdered tee…
2 years, 9 months ago
Actor Cate Blanchett on Glenda Jackson, Girlguiding, Decluttering your love life, Aasmah Mir on her childhood memoir
The actor Cate Blanchett celebrates the work and life of Glenda Jackson, who died this week.
The mothers of Grace O'Malley Kumar and Barnaby Webber s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Synthetic embryos, Suzie Fletcher, Eco-anxiety, Lynzy Billing
Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells that sidestep the need for eggs or sperm. The news was presented yesterday at the In…
2 years, 9 months ago
Jo Tongue, Universal Basic Income, Sian Norris, Childhood Obesity
NHS England is going to open 10 new clinics this year to deal with childhood obesity. The clinics will provide "intensive" support to thousands of ch…
2 years, 9 months ago