Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Episodes to download
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Pregnancy discrimination, Girls State and Carly Pearce
Sat 6 Apr 2024
Nicola Hinds on winning her ‘David and Goliath’ case against a national company.
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Rwanda genocide, Bowie's hairdresser, womanhood during Ramadan
Fri 5 Apr 2024
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ journalist who returned to Rwanda for the first time since fleeing the genocide.
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Pregnancy discrimination, Prue Leith, Femcels, Social workers on screen
Thu 4 Apr 2024
Nicola Hinds has won her 'David and Goliath' case against a national company.
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Girls State, Author Holly Gramazio, First female prime minister of the DRC
Wed 3 Apr 2024
Girls State - the US project that spotlights the young female leaders of tomorrow
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Scotland's hate crime law, Motherhood and art, Actor Rachael Stirling
Tue 2 Apr 2024
Reaction to Scotland's new hate crime law.
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Women in Country Music
Mon 1 Apr 2024
From Beyoncé to Shania Twain, women are making country cool again.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Katie Price, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Biba exhibition
Sat 30 Mar 2024
Model turned TV personality Katie Price's take on young women and cosmetic surgery.
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Katie Price, A decade of same-sex marriage, From policing to crime-writing
Fri 29 Mar 2024
Katie Price discusses her thoughts on young women and cosmetic surgery.
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Biba exhibition, Pupil behaviour, Australian politician Georgie Purcell, Breaking the cycle
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Founder of Biba, Barbara Hulanicki on how it all began.
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Stoning of Women in Afghanistan, Jazz with Zara McFarlane, AI job losses & women
Wed 27 Mar 2024
Fawzia Koofi on news that Afghan women who commit adultery will be stoned to death.
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Killed Women campaign, Anti-ageing products and young girls, France birth rate
Tue 26 Mar 2024
The campaign to raise the minimum sentence for perpetrators of domestic homicide.
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Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, Breaking the cycle, Musih Tedji Xaviere
Mon 25 Mar 2024
The Oscar-winning actors and friends on playing Sixties suburban mothers in a new film.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Laura Kenny, Actor Vicky Knight, baby loss certificates
Sat 23 Mar 2024
Winner of five gold Olympic medals Dame Laura Kenny on her decision to retire.
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Who wants to be a female entrepreneur?
Fri 22 Mar 2024
What needs to happen so more women can turn great ideas into successful businesses?
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Waspi women, Dr Jen Gunter, The Liverbirds, Child poverty
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Women hit by state pension age rise are owed compensation, according to the ombudsman.
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Baby loss certificates, 'Women's intuition', Carolynne Hunter & energy bills
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Emma Barnett talks about her experience of receiving a baby loss certificate.
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Actor Vicky Knight, Conscription, Author Lesley Pearse
Tue 19 Mar 2024
Vicky on her new film Silver Haze, based on her experience of surviving an arson attack.
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Olympian cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, Actor Imogen Poots, Pornography series
Mon 18 Mar 2024
Winner of five gold Olympic medals Dame Laura Kenny on her decision to retire
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Irish folk singer Cara Dillon, The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Maximalism
Sat 16 Mar 2024
Cara Dillon on her new book and album, Coming ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
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Men & porn, Women's Diaries, South Korea birth rate
Fri 15 Mar 2024
We continue our Woman's Hour series looking at porn. Today we hear from three men.
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Folk singer Cara Dillon, Diane Abbott and racist abuse, Haiti
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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IVF clinic license suspended, Porn series, 'Queens' wildlife programme
Wed 13 Mar 2024
A fertility clinic in London has recently had its licence suspended, we hear the latest.
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Body shaming in dance, Author Charlotte Wood, Mothers’ Manifesto
Tue 12 Mar 2024
The woman who has made a legal claim against a dance school for body shaming.
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The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax, Jennie Lee MP, England Rugby player Meg Jones
Mon 11 Mar 2024
Four mums have spoken out about being at centre of a conspiracy that went viral.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour – Music artist Raye, COPA 71 and Imelda May on the Yeats sisters
Sat 9 Mar 2024
The south London singer-songwriter discusses breaking records at the Brits.
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Women's Football in '71, Mollie King, Female psychopaths
Fri 8 Mar 2024
Who were the trailblazing footballers in an unofficial Women's World Cup in Brazil in '71?
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Nikki Haley, Pornography series, Author Liz Jensen
Thu 7 Mar 2024
Why has Nikki Haley dropped out of the Republican race for president now?
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Raye, Women swimming the Channel, Anita Hill, Adaptive fashion
Wed 6 Mar 2024
The singer who won six Brit awards at the weekend talks about what it means to her.
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Historic abortion law change in France and Pornography series
Tue 5 Mar 2024
French constitutional expert Stephanie Hennette-Vauchez on French abortion law change.
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Sarah Everard's murder 3 years on, Jess Phillips MP and Baroness Ruth Davidson, singer CMAT
Mon 4 Mar 2024
We speak to the Detective Inspector who interviewed Wayne Couzens.
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