The Conversation Episodes Episode guide
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Busting period taboos
Challenging period myths and making menstruation easier
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Social media poetry stars
Are poets who start out on social media given the respect they deserve?
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Coaching national teams: Tracey Neville and Desiree Ellis
What's it like to coach your national women's sports team?
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Female friendship
How to make and how to keep good female friends
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Putting women's stories centre stage
Two leading playwrights who focus on the female experience.
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How motherhood changed me as a film-maker
Documentary makers who use their own lives to explore issues facing their countries
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Women living positively with HIV
Two HIV advocates explain why it's no longer a death sentence.
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Psychotherapy pioneers: Esther Perel and Susie Orbach
Two world renowned psychotherapists on how they are opening up the treatment room
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Women working in war zones
Two women who lead humanitarian missions in Syria and Yemen.
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Startups saving lives
Two women whose medical startups have saved thousands of lives.
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Is mountain climbing worth the risk?
Two record-breaking female mountaineers discuss the risks and the rewards.
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The hugging dentists
Two women who've come up with creative ways to treat anxious patients
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Jobs for the girls?
Experts explain why female unemployment is so high in Jordan and South Africa.
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Cooking my culture
Two women using cooking to bring communities together
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Women using hip hop to change attitudes
Two female hip hop artists from Guatemala and Yemen on the challenges they've faced
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Dementia carers
Two women discuss what good care means for people with dementia
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Women writing relationships
Two acclaimed female authors whose stories shine a light on romantic relationships
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Champion mums
Two women proving that motherhood is no barrier to sporting success
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Female roadies
Two road crew for huge bands who defy the stereotype
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Women living with schizophrenia
Two women with mental health issues talk about overcoming stigma to pursue their careers
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Motherhood, multiplied
Two women discuss the challenges and rewards of raising multiple babies
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We refuse to accept street harassment
Two women making the streets safer in India and in France
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How language defines us as women
Two women explain what gendered language is and why it matters
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Do small loans really work for women?
Two women who head up micro-finance organisations
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Fasten your seatbelts: Female flight attendants
Two women discuss what it's like to be a woman on the frontline of the airline industry
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Women delivering better births
Two female obstetricians who are empowering pregnant women
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Women crunching numbers
Two women making history in maths and computing
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Union women
Two women changing the face of trade unions in the UK and in Kenya
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Women fighting an invisible disease
Two women breaking taboos around the condition of endometriosis
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The beauty of ageing
Two women discuss how to grow old with purpose, passion and good humour
