Podcast Episodes

Abortion laws, Anorexia and bone health, Profile of Greta Thunberg, Susanna Hoffs

Is current abortion legislation fit for purpose? It's a question debated this morning following the conviction and sentencing of Carla Foster for ind…

2 years, 9 months ago

Yasmeen Lari, Pakistan's first female architect, Relationships under pressure

The Scout Association is not doing enough to protect and safeguard children from child abuse, that’s according to two young women who have set up a w…

2 years, 9 months ago

Weekend Woman’s Hour: Ukraine Kakhovka Dam, Candi Staton & Christina Rossetti the Carer

Facebook has removed an advert for a sanitary towel product because it referenced the words Vagina, Vulva and Clitoris. It's the latest in a long lin…

2 years, 9 months ago

Sue Barker, Period advert bans, Selling sexual assault in East Asia, Jenny Jungle

This Wimbledon will be the first in 30 years without the familiar presence of Sue Barker. Last year she stepped down from hosting the tennis tourname…

2 years, 9 months ago

Louise Redknapp, Insomnia, Lindsey Burrow, Ukraine dam

The rescue efforts are continuing in Ukraine after Tuesday's breach of the Kakhovka dam. 30 communities along the Dnipro river have been flooded acco…

2 years, 9 months ago

Polly Toynbee on her new book An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals

As a self confessed “silver spooner” who enjoyed a privileged upbringing Polly Toynbee talks to Nuala McGovern about her committed left wing "rabbl…

2 years, 9 months ago

Candi Staton, Narcissistic mother 'Bethany', Author Emma Cline, Smart phones in school, Nurses

Four-time Grammy award nominated singer Candi Staton has moved between several musical genres during of the course of her celebrated career – from so…

2 years, 9 months ago

Women in Ukraine, Baroness Sue Campbell, Abortion law in Texas, Drastic hair

The Sunday Times' Christina Lamb on the women involved in the war effort in Ukraine.

We look at the trend of brides having their long hair cut into bo…

2 years, 9 months ago

Weekend Woman's Hour: Witness Protection, Gender Pension Gap, Big Boobs and Dr Edna Adan Ismali

A woman who was stalked by her husband and then placed into witness protection with a new identity to escape him, says she feels like she's the one b…

2 years, 10 months ago

Edna Adan Ismail, winner of Templeton Prize, Online games, Vasectomy increase in US, Iranian female journos on trial

Two female journalists in Iran are on trial for covering the death of 22 year old Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in custody last yea…

2 years, 10 months ago