Podcast Episodes

Listener Week: Is it ever good to give up on dreams? Working class women & university, Living funerals

For Woman's Hour's Listener Week, you, our listeners, decide what we cover on the programme.

Nuala McGovern is joined by Monica and chartered psycholo…

3 years, 1 month ago

Listener Week: Ukrainian women soldiers, Long lost families, Strong women, Refugees, Eating Alone

For listener week, you, our listeners, decide what we cover on the programme.

Listener Liz got in touch to say she wanted to know more about the women…

3 years, 1 month ago

Listener Week: Women's World Cup final, Shoplifting, Heavy metal

For listener week you, our listeners, decide what we cover on the programme.

It might not have been World Cup glory for England's Lionesses but they …

3 years, 1 month ago

Women's World Cup final, Surviving a WWII Japanese prison camp, Care leavers, 'Older-age orphans', Nasa astronaut Christina Koch

Former Lioness and England's top female goal scorer, Ellen White, on England reaching the Fifa Women's World Cup final. VJ day was on Tuesday, mark…

3 years, 1 month ago

Ellen White, How to ask for a pay rise, astronaut Christina Koch, Morning-after pill

Sunday sees the Women's World Cup final between England and Spain and to mark it we are joined by England's top female goal scorer, Ellen White. By t…

3 years, 1 month ago

Lionesses' legacy, Sarah Greene, Care leavers, Abortion

England are through to the final of the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the first time in history. But while the Lionesses are excelling in Australia and …

3 years, 1 month ago

Martine McCutcheon, anxiety & the perimenopause, Who is Fani Willis? Period huts in Nepal

Martine McCutcheon describes her rising anxiety levels to do with the perimenopause. Who is Fani Willis? On Monday 14 August a grand jury in Fulton…

3 years, 1 month ago

Youngest Afghan mayor, Romanticising your life, surviving WWII Japanese prison camp, Big tech & sexuality

Today marks two years since the re-taking of Afghanistan by the Taliban. We speak to Afghanistan's youngest female mayor, Zarifa Ghafari, who was ele…

3 years, 1 month ago

Women's football World Cup, 'Older-age orphans', Channel swimming with a stoma, Caroline Moran, Women's feet

The Lionesses are through to the Women's World Cup semi-final on Wednesday against co-hosts Australia. Reaching semi-finals of major tournaments is w…

3 years, 1 month ago

Weekend Woman's Hour: Megan Thee Stallion, Students Living at Home, Sarah de Lagarde, Dr Nadia Nadim

The rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years for the shooting of fellow musician Megan Thee Stallion. She required surgery to remove bullet f…

3 years, 1 month ago