Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Sisters: A Woman鈥檚 Hour special
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Nuala McGovern explores sibling bonds, rivalries and finding sisterhood outside family
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Weekend Woman's Hour Listener Week: Van Life, Risky sports, Widows Fire, Pets as therapy, Tummies
Sat 24 Aug 2024
Listener Siobhan Daniels on living in a motorhome and exploring the UK
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Listener Week: Sex in your 70s, Risky sports, Cost of men and women's haircuts
Fri 23 Aug 2024
Elaine is in her seventies and her partner would like to resume a sexual relationship.
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Listener Week: Leaving a legacy, Periods through history, Belly dancing
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Listener Bettie on how one moment changed her life鈥檚 trajectory.
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Listener Week: Widow's Fire, DNA discoveries, Decluttering backlash
Wed 21 Aug 2024
A listener shares her experience of hyper-arousal in the midst of grief
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Listener Week: Tummies, Later in life lesbians, Long Covid
Tue 20 Aug 2024
Looking at our relationships with our tummies, and why it can be so complicated.
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Listener Week: Van life, Surrogacy, Women and stonemasonary
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Listener Siobhan Daniels on living in a motorhome and exploring the UK
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Olympian Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Science fiction, Paralympian Jodie Grinham
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Olympic medallist, weightlifter Emily Campbell talks about her success at the Games.
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Kyla Harris, Mania and perimenopause, Daughters documentary, Maternity clothes
Fri 16 Aug 2024
Co-creator and star of new 蜜芽传媒 comedy series, Kyla Harris, joins Jessica.
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Olympic medallist Emily Campbell, Sexsomnia and the CPS, Beryl Cook play
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Fresh from the Paris Olympics, weightlifter Emily Campbell talks about her Games.
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Women and science fiction; Say She She
Wed 14 Aug 2024
Why is science fiction considered to be a 'genre for men'?
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Actor Romola Garai, AI research and breast cancer, Rebecca Watson
Tue 13 Aug 2024
Award-winning actor Romola Garai talks to Nuala about her latest stage role.
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Paralympian Jodie Grinham, The Wicker Man, Singer Mary Bridget Davies
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Paris, Paralympics and pregnant - archer Jodie Grinham speaks to Nuala.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: Lottie Tomlinson, Madwomen of the West, Infants and domestic abuse, Elles Bailey
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Award-winning, British roots, blues and Americana rock sensation Elles Bailey.
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Olympics boxing controversy, Lottie Tomlinson, Losing friends after a break-up, Golda Schultz
Fri 9 Aug 2024
The 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 Dan Roan on the eligibility row overshadowing women鈥檚 boxing at the Olympics
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Blues singer Elles Bailey, Author Abi Dar茅, Infants and domestic abuse
Thu 8 Aug 2024
Award-winning British roots, blues and Americana rock singer Elles Bailey speaks to Anita.
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Army racism, Gardens and the Bloomsbury Group, Fantastically Great Women musical
Wed 7 Aug 2024
Kerry-Ann Knight on the racist and sexual abuse she received whilst serving in the army.
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Keely Hodgkinson's gold, Meera Sodha, IQ levels
Tue 6 Aug 2024
Olympian Jo Pavey reflects on Keely Hodgkinson's 800m Olympic gold medal.
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UK riots, Madwomen of the West, South Asian beauty, Yazidi women
Mon 5 Aug 2024
We explore how women are involved and affected by the violent unrest seen in the UK.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Amanda Abbington, VAT on private school fees, Steven van de Velde Olympics controversy, Aigul Akhmetshina
Sat 3 Aug 2024
Amanda Abbingdon on taking the lead in a powerful new play.
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Amanda Abbington, Crime Fiction, Asbestos in Make-up and Sock Wars
Fri 2 Aug 2024
Amanda Abbingdon on taking the lead in a powerful new play.
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Southport attack, Simone Biles profile, Author Anne Hawk
Thu 1 Aug 2024
How the Southport community are coming together to try and understand what has happened.
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VAT on private school fees, Steven van de Velde Olympics controversy, Concert pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen, Commuters with noisy
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Discussing the impact of VAT on private school fees.
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Southport attack, Sexism in Olympics coverage, Female auctioneer
Tue 30 Jul 2024
The aftermath of the stabbings in Southport and how the community is responding.
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Edna O'Brien obit, SEND education, Republicans and women, Aigul Akhmetshina
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Author Eimear McBride pays tribute to the Irish novelist Edna O'Brien who has died.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: Olympics preview, Holocaust documentary, Poet Zara Sehar, Sculptor Dominique White, Comedian Sashi Perera
Sat 27 Jul 2024
蜜芽传媒 Sports presenter Jeanette Kwakye on the sportswomen to look out for at Paris 2024.
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Mercury Prize Nominees, Paris Olympic Athletes, Adoption
Fri 26 Jul 2024
We hear from two of the female artists nominated for this year鈥檚 Mercury Prize.
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Kamala Harris and female votes, Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, Poet Zara Sehar
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Which policies could win Harris female votes, and what is her electoral strategy?
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Kamala Harris and 'brat summer', Holocaust documentary, Comedian Sashi Perera
Wed 24 Jul 2024
The online campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Megan Davis, Cambridge Vice-Chancellor, Kate Lister on banning partners from social events
Tue 23 Jul 2024
Author Megan Davis on her experience of blowing the whistle on financial crime.
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