Woman's Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Weekend Woman's Hour: 75th Birthday, Mina Smallman, Celibacy, Professor Anita Hill
This week we mark 75 years of Woman's Hour on air.
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Musician & singer, Abi Sampa; Celibacy; Chinaza Onyechi; Femicide
Abi Sampa describes herself as a "weird warbling electric Veena player".
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Woman's Hour turns 75 today
For our 75th, a specially commissioned poll looking at women and equality in the UK today
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Mina Smallman, Pauline Campbell, FASD
Mina Smallman, whose 2 daughters were murdered last year, talks about a mother's grief.
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Anita Hill on her book Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.
Anita Hill. Why talking to people we don't know can be good for us. Musician Fatma Said.
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Institutional Misogyny, Bullying in Parliament, Women Magicians
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Sarah Everard; Intergenerational friendships, 007 Lashana Lynch; 'Late life lesbians'. Married to an anti-vaxxer
Reaction to the details of Sarah Everard's murder.
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Intergenerational friendships; Victims' Commissioner Vera Baird; Nikita Gill and Gnarly; Liz Fraser
The joy of friendships with an age gap.
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Sarah Everard; Zoë Billingham, Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary; Pepsi & Shirlie; The ethics and laws around surrogacy
Reaction to details of Sarah Everard's final hours.
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'Typical Girls' - a new play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, set in a women's prison; Coming out at 44; Student counselling.
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm; Alison McGovern MP; STIs; Coming out at 44; Student counselling.
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Former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi; The R Kelly verdict; Barrister Robin Moira White; FIFA 2022 game soundtrack
Former CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi. Barrister Robin Moira White. FIFA 2022 game soundtrack
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Lashana Lynch, Labour Conference & women, Being married to an anti-vaxxer, Universal credit uplift
Lashana Lynch on making history as the first Black female 007.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Daytimers - South Asian ravers of the 80s, Julia Bradbury and Gaming & Sexism
Daytimers - South Asian ravers of the 80s, Julia Bradbury and Gaming & Sexism.
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Daytimers - South Asian ravers from the '80s, Sabina Nessa, School absence & mental health, Folic acid & Afghan refugees
Daytimers, Sabina Nessa, school absence & mental health, folic acid, Afghan refugees.
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Sabina Nessa, Fertility Warnings, Flexible Working
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Channel swimmer Chloë McCardel; Prison Ombudsman Sue McAllister; author Laura Dockrill; Afghan girls' education
The Australian swimmer planning to swim the English Channel for record-breaking 44th time.
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Music from Martha Wainwright, Australian campaigner Grace Tame. Dame Kate Bingham former chair of the Vaccine Task Force.
Martha Wainwright on her new album, Australian campaigner Grace Tame, Dame Kate Bingham.
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Julia Bradbury and breast cancer, Profile of Chancellor Angela Merkel, Charlie Webster on sexual abuse and safeguarding laws
Chancellor Angel Merkel's legacy after 20 years at the heart of European & global politics
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Dame Elizabeth Anionwu; Jennifer Saunders; Former Afghan women's minister; Pretty privilege; Choosing to be child free
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu; Jennifer Saunders; Former Afghan women's minister.
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Pretty Privilege, Baby Deaths Report, Thea Gilmore, Victory for rubbish stink woman
Pretty Privilege - what is it and should it be used? Baby deaths report, and Thea Gilmore.
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Dame Elizabeth Anionwu; Alison Goldsworthy; Linda Edwards; Ministerial reshuffle
The woman who revolutionised the treatment of sickle cell disease.
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Amy Hart, Covid Limbo, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Women rowers in Venice; Former Afghan women's minister; Julia Peyton-Jones; Non-disclosure agreements
Women and men are now getting equal prize money at Venice's famous rowing race.
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Jennifer Saunders, Fashion editor Justine Picardie on the real "Miss Dior"
Jennifer Saunders, Fashion editor Justine Picardie on the real "Miss Dior".
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Michaela Coel, Rafia Zakaria & Japanese ‘Womeneconomics’
Michaela Coel, Rafia Zakaria Against White Feminism & Japanese ‘Womeneconomics’.
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Comedian Sophie Willan, Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, Emma Raducanu, the Unofficial Bridgerton the Musical Afghanistan update
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Coughing; Rafia Zakaria; Rosie Jones; Population and climate; Cressida Dick
Is coughing a learnt behaviour that post-Covid, we can unlearn?
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Jennifer Hudson on Aretha Franklin; Julie Bindel; Social Care; and Soviet Women in WWII.
Julie Bindel, Social Care, Jennifer Hudson on Aretha Franklin and Soviet Women in WWII.
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Michaela Coel, Lockdown in paradise, Female HGV drivers, Tribunal win
Michaela Coel on her first book. Lockdown in paradise. Female HGV drivers.
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Val McDermid on Miss Marple; Sarah Harding's death; Sam Quek; Japanese 'Womeneconomics'
The literary return of a much loved Agatha Christie creation - Miss Marple.