Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFeminist porn, Karen Millen, I Can Hear The Cuckoo, Forced marriage
Erika Lust makes adult films that focus on female pleasure, diversity and what she calls ethical production. She has big ideas about how to change th…
3 years ago
Suranne Jones, Housing, Eating disorders, Physicist Professor Dame Athene Donald
Bafta-winning actor Suranne Jones is back on our screens with Maryland, a three-part drama about two sisters discovering that their mother was leadin…
3 years ago
Calls for allergy tsar, Men and contraception, Judy Blume books
Tanya Ednan-Laperouse and Emma Turay are two women who lost their teenage daughters due to severe allergic reactions to food they had eaten. They are…
3 years ago
Can trauma in childhood become a driving force for success in later life?
In their book What I Wish I’d Known When I Was Young, they interview the likes of Ruth Davidson and Mary Portas and explore the psychology behind the…
3 years ago
Weekend Woman's Hour: Activist Masih Alinejad, Malorie Blackman, Bel Powley and Kate Ferdinand
Masih Alinejad, Iranian American journalist, women's rights campaigner and a Time Woman of the Year 2023, is an outspoken critic of the Iranian gover…
3 years ago
Maureen Lipman, Kate Ferdinand, Power Lister Rimla Akhtar, Women ambassadors
In her latest stage role Dame Maureen Lipman plays Rose in a one-woman memory play with its Jewish heroine sitting Shiva – mourning for the many dead…
3 years ago
Operation Identify Me, Iran, Rosie & Chris Ramsey, Race Across the World
Masih Alinejad, Iranian American journalist, women's rights campaigner and a Time Woman of the Year 2023, is an outspoken critic of the Iranian gover…
3 years ago
Malorie Blackman, Trump verdict, Kitemark for female-founded firms, Netball
Just Saying’ is a memoir by the bestselling author Malorie Blackman, former Children’s Laureate, best known for her Noughts & Crosses series for youn…
3 years ago
Bel Powley, UTIs, Thai Elections, Theatre for Teenagers, Under Pressure
Most of us are familiar with the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis with her family, in Amsterd…
3 years ago
Julian of Norwich and the power of inspirational words in tough times
Words to live by and finding hope in the face of terrible suffering, the life of the anchoress or hermit Julian of Norwich, the power of walking and …
3 years ago