Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: SEND, Christiane Amanpour, Self Esteem, Return of the bullet bra
Sat 28 Jun 2025
New figures show a rise in care plans for SEND in England. We look at the impact.
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Live from Glastonbury with Self Esteem and Jamz Supernova
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Musican, songwriter & actress Self Esteem speaks to Anita ahead of her peformance tonight
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SEND, Kate Burton, Yehudis Fletcher
Thu 26 Jun 2025
New figures show a rise in care plans for SEND in England. We look at the impact.
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Christiane Amanpour, Child Q, Melissa Febos
Wed 25 Jun 2025
The legendary war reporter and news anchor on her new podcast with her ex-husband.
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Porn review, Maternity inquiry, Dr Laurie Marker, Return of the bullet bra
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Baroness Gabby Bertin on the Independent Pornography Review Taskforce.
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Child criminal records, Screen time, Heart valve disease
Mon 23 Jun 2025
Grooming survivor Jade on child criminal records being quashed.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: Natalie Fleet MP, HIV prevention, Trisha Goddard, Older surrogacy, Comedian Rosie Jones
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Natalie Fleet on speaking out about being a victim of grooming and statutory rape.
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Natalie Fleet MP, a spike of botulism cases and Kethiwe Ngcobo on her mother Lauretta
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Natalie Fleet on speaking out about being a victim of grooming and statutory rape.
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Trisha Goddard, HIV prevention, Family favourites, Air pollution
Thu 19 Jun 2025
TV presenter Trisha Goddard on her career as the British Oprah and living with cancer.
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Abortion vote, Crime writer Karin Slaughter, Co-sleeping with older children, Racing driver Abbi Pulling
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Crime writer Karin Slaughter discusses her latest novel We Are All Guilty Here
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Comedian Rosie Jones, Grooming gangs, Playing outside
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Actor, comedian and writer Rosie Jones joins us to discuss her first sitcom, Pushers.
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Child sex abuse gangs, Older surrogacy, Ranking friends
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Maggie Oliver responds to the announcement of a national inquiry on grooming gangs.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: Julianne Moore, Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction winner Yael van der Wouden, ultrarunner Stephanie Case
Sat 14 Jun 2025
Julianne Moore discusses her latest film, the thriller Echo Valley.
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Race Across the World, Women's Prize winners, Ute Lemper, Measles at Glasto
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Caroline Bridge speaks to Anita about winning Race Across the World with her son.
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Abortion, Spending Review, Lara Pulver, Yael van der Wouden
Thu 12 Jun 2025
As MPs prepare for a free vote on changes to abortion law, we look at the two amendments.
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Ultrarunner Stephanie Case, Alice Figueiredo, Women's Super League, Cycle tracking apps
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Winning a 100km race six months postpartum and breastfeeding along the way.
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Indecent exposure, Natalie Dormer, World fertility, Author Jessica Stanley
Tue 10 Jun 2025
We hear how cases of indecent exposure have been dealt with since Sarah Everard鈥檚 murder.
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Julianne Moore, Forced adoption in China, Nurses vote on pay deal
Mon 9 Jun 2025
Julianne Moore discusses her latest film, the thriller Echo Valley.
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Weekend Woman鈥檚 Hour: Ms Tina Knowles, Tennis at Queens, Dr Grace Spence Green, Bernardine Evaristo
Sat 7 Jun 2025
How to raise self-confident women? Beyonc茅 and Solange's mother, Ms Tina Knowles, explains
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Weight-loss jabs, The Salt Path director, Tennis at Queens, Part-time teaching
Fri 6 Jun 2025
A look at the new advice about weight-loss jabs, and contraception or pregnancy.
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Victims' Right to Review, Dr Grace Spence Green, Mums in coaching, New play Elephant
Thu 5 Jun 2025
Survivors of rape & serious sexual assault given the right to have dropped cases reviewed.
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Bernardine Evaristo, South Korean Elections, The Crucible
Wed 4 Jun 2025
The celebrated novelist is the winner of the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award.
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Ms Tina Knowles, Madeleine McCann search, Mother and baby units in NI
Tue 3 Jun 2025
How to raise self-confident women? Beyonc茅 & Solange's mother, Ms Tina Knowles, explains.
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Intimacy co-ordinator Ita O'Brien, Heart disease trials, Celebs & beauty brands
Mon 2 Jun 2025
The world-renowned intimacy co-ordinator discusses her new book, Intimacy.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Carey Mulligan, Mary Earps鈥� England retirement, International Aid, Folk trio I'm With Her
Sat 31 May 2025
The actor talks about her new film The Ballad of Wallis Island and why she loves musicals.
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Carey Mulligan, Mary Earps' England retirement, New head of MI6
Fri 30 May 2025
The actor tells Woman's Hour about her new film, turning 40 and why she loves musicals.
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Transcripts in sexual assault cases, Multigenerational living, Women's matches at the French Open
Thu 29 May 2025
We assess the one-year pilot giving victims of sexual assault access to court transcripts.
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Pakistan child marriage, I'm With Her, Sex bias in natural history museums
Wed 28 May 2025
The city of Islamabad has moved to ban child marriage.
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Sian Gibson, International aid, Author Agustina Bazterrica, Shein
Tue 27 May 2025
Why did actor Sian Gibson almost give up on acting?
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Women in farming | A Woman鈥檚 Hour special
Mon 26 May 2025
Anita Rani spends a day at a farm in Devon hearing from female farmers about their lives.
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