Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Imtiaz Dharker, Catherine Nicholson and Agnes Poirier, Clare Murphy, Dr Alison Smith
Mon 14 Feb 2022
The language of love and poetry with Imtiaz Dharker.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Marian Keyes, Donna McLean, Mansion Hunters
Sat 12 Feb 2022
Author Marian Keyes on revisiting a much-loved character in her new book Again, Rachel.
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Cressida Dick, Tukwini Mandela, Sheila Ferguson
Fri 11 Feb 2022
Commissioner Cressida Dick's resignation and what it means
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Licoricia, Kate Nash, Devolution and Samantha Jones
Thu 10 Feb 2022
The singer Kate Nash and the impact devolution has had on female political representation.
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Marian Keyes, Women making crypto art, Self-harm in women's prisons
Wed 9 Feb 2022
The bestselling novelist on revisiting a much-loved character in new book Again, Rachel
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Group screaming, Kim Leadbeater, Breast cancer treatment, Separated fostered siblings, Lazy Susan
Tue 8 Feb 2022
Have you ever felt like you wanted to scream from the top of your lungs?
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Knitted Sandringham, Donna McLean, Language of reproduction
Mon 7 Feb 2022
Meet the creator of an extraordinary 'knitted Sandringham' - 92 year old Margaret Seaman.
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World record Atlantic rowers, Police culture, Women and investing
Sat 5 Feb 2022
The fastest women to row across the Atlantic. Photo credit Atlantic Campaigns.
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British Vogue, Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 & Mummy Bloggers
Fri 4 Feb 2022
British Vogue鈥檚 iconic cover, the GB women at the Olympics and 'Insta mums'.
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Stacey Dooley, Police culture, Novice rowers become champions, Afghan women update, Anne Boleyn
Thu 3 Feb 2022
Stacey Dooley investigates the UK's mental health crisis in her new book
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Gloria Allred, Monica Ali, Val McDermid
Wed 2 Feb 2022
American lawyer Gloria Allred, who is still representing 20 accusers of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Carrie Johnson, Supreme Court nominee, Women & work in the 17th century, Rising popularity of thongs, MMR
Tue 1 Feb 2022
Carrie Johnson - the first prime ministerial spouse who has had a career in politics.
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Sarah Brown sings Mahalia Jackson, Performative activism, Over-exercising
Mon 31 Jan 2022
To mark the 50th anniversary of her death, Sarah Brown sings Mahalia Jackson.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Dr Koshka Duff, Tareena Shakil, 'Corona Lisa', Midwife Shortage, Six The Musical
Sat 29 Jan 2022
Dr Koshka Duff鈥檚 first broadcast interview since winning compensation from the Met police
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Tareena Shakil, Nabihah Iqbal & Libby Heaney, Death Doulas
Fri 28 Jan 2022
Tareena Shakil, the first British woman to be found guilty of joining IS, tell her story.
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Opera arias reinvented, Holocaust survivor Rachel Levy
Thu 27 Jan 2022
The all female string quartet who are reimagining the songs of tragic operatic heroines.
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The Corona Lisa, Dr Koshka Duff, Magistrates and Revolutionary women
Wed 26 Jan 2022
Emma speaks to Dr Koshka Duff about her treatment by the Metropolitan Police.
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Six the Musical, Author Hannah Jewell on 'snowflakes', Women in Ukraine
Tue 25 Jan 2022
The success of the modern musical retelling of the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII.
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Female Offender Strategy, Midwife shortage, Zara Rutherford, Annalena Baerbock
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Is the criminal justice system responsive enough to the specific needs of women offenders?
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Tracey Emin, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy
Sat 22 Jan 2022
Tracey Emin on why she wants her artwork removed from display in Number 10 Downing Street.
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Mary Ward, Georgina Lucas & Ladette Culture
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Mary Ward the 17th century feminist, Georgina Lucas & Ladette Culture
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The future of IVF. Self-love. Reclaim These Streets judicial review. ENB's Tamara Rojo.
Thu 20 Jan 2022
The future of IVF. Tracey Emin on removing her art from No.10. Anna Soubry on defecting.
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Georgina Ballantine - record-breaking fisherwoman, Dame Rachel de Souza, Dianne McKay, Rising cost of living, Rachel Krantz
Wed 19 Jan 2022
Influential and fearless women from Perth in Scotland over several centuries.
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Netball, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy, Universities & NDAs
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Higher Education Minister MIchelle Donelan discusses universities and the ending of NDAs
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Winter Olympics; Ashling Murphy; Gender roles and parenting; Investing in female-founded companies
Mon 17 Jan 2022
Skeleton racer-Laura Deas, one of Team GB's athletes competing in the Winter Olympics 2022
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Anti vaccine mandate, Witchcraft, Helen Pankhurst
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Helen Pankhurst, on the legacy of the Suffragettes and protest.
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Midwives refusing the vaccine, Spiking inquiry, 50 years of diet & fitness with Rosemary Conley, Slam poetry
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Midwives refusing the vaccine.
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Emma Gannon on her new book (Dis)connected, Virginia Giuffre US civil case, Helen Pankhurst
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Emma Gannon on her new book new book, (Dis)connected.
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Safety of Women; Sarak Sak; Adjoa Andoh and Julie Cooper; Women on Coins; Adolescent Skin
Wed 12 Jan 2022
Actor Adjoa Andoh and composer Julie Cooper talk about their new collaboration Continuum.
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