Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire. The Woman's Hour Guide to Life collection is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidetolife
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Rose Ayling-Ellis in As You Like It, Whistleblower: Helen Evans, Children with Mothers in Prison
Fri 9 Dec 2022
Rose Ayling-Ellis makes her West End stage debut as Celia in As You Like It.
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Meghan and Harry Documentary, Carolynne Hunter, Christmas Family
Thu 8 Dec 2022
Reaction to the release of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix documentary.
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Kate Winslet, Professor Sue Black, Chloe Smith, Beryl Cook
Wed 7 Dec 2022
Kate Winslet on her new film and Professor Dame Sue Black on forensic investigations.
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The Silent Twins, the science behind 'mummy brain', Rosie Pearson, Lorien Haynes
Tue 6 Dec 2022
A new film about real-life Welsh twins who only spoke to each other growing up.
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Hadley Freeman, Toni Crews, Christmas appeal
Mon 5 Dec 2022
Journalist Hadley Freeman discusses why she resigned as a columnist at the Guardian.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Rachael Watts, Dr Rosemary Coogan, Part-time Work, Failing the 11 Plus
Sat 3 Dec 2022
The woman whose testimony put the so-called Babes in the Wood killer behind bars.
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Anoushka Shankar, UTIs, Sad Beige Children
Fri 2 Dec 2022
A new test which could diagnose the exact type of urinary tract infection in 40 minutes.
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Rachael Watts, Danielle De Niese, Royal race row
Thu 1 Dec 2022
The woman whose testimony put the so-called Babes in the Wood killer behind bars.
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Dr Rosemary Coogan, Contraceptive Pill, Failing the 11+
Wed 30 Nov 2022
Dr Rosemary Coogan is the first UK woman to be chosen as a European Space Agency astronaut
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Part-time work, sexual violence in conflict, graphic novel No Surrender
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Why are there so few decently paid part-time jobs?
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Ricki Lake talks about latest project. Sexual abuse in the navy. China protests. Camilla's Squad.
Mon 28 Nov 2022
Ricki Lake on her new documentary, The Business of Birth Control.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: stalking, long-term relationships and why they fail, women boxers, the clitoris, Andrea Riseborough
Sat 26 Nov 2022
A candid chat with Andrea Riseborough & ten years of stalking laws: what has changed?
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Women Boxers, Naming Sexual Predators, Fathers & Daughters, Sexual Health over 65
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Susannah Schofield promoting and supporting women boxers.
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Lady Glenconner, Ukraine, Clever girls, The Clitoris
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Lady Glenconner, lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades, on her new memoir
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Andrea Riseborough, Egg Freezing, Women in Qatar
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Andrea Riseborough on her latest role in Mathilda and egg freezing - is it worth it?
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Long-term relationships and why they fail, football and politics, Brain of Britain, Susan Seidelman
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Why is it that we so often struggle or fail in marriages or long term partnerships?
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Ten Years of Stalking Laws: 'Changing attitudes is harder than changing the law'
Mon 21 Nov 2022
Woman's Hour looks at stalking in England and Wales, ten years on from the law change.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: BBC 100, Auntie Beeb with Mel Giedroyc, Incels, Women in Space
Sat 19 Nov 2022
We ask Mel Giedroyc and Professor Jean Seaton why the BBC is known as Auntie
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Jill Goldston, Internet Watch Foundation report, Getaway Girls in Leeds, Cash for Babies Scandal
Fri 18 Nov 2022
Jill Goldston: possibly Britain's most prolific 'extra'.
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The Big Swing’s Georgina Jackson and Emma Smith. Bronwyn Curtis, Vicky Pryce, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr and Ben Zand
Thu 17 Nov 2022
The world's first double female fronted big band.
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Poet Joelle Taylor, Fantasy Football and Yusra Mardini and Sally El Hosaini
Wed 16 Nov 2022
Poet Joelle Taylor, winner of the Polari Prize and the rise of women in Fantasy Football.
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Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Iran protests
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Practical advice for anxious mothers. Burns specialist Professor Fiona Wood. Tampon tax .
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BBC 100 - Kim Moore poem with women's voices, Auntie Beeb with Mel Giedroyc, former MP Anne Milton on Gavin Williamson
Mon 14 Nov 2022
The voices of women across the last century, via a specially commissioned Kim Moore poem.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: LeAnn Rimes, Women in the Royal Navy, Althea McNish
Sat 12 Nov 2022
The How Do I Live singer discuss her new album, turning 40 and growing up in the spotlight
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LeAnn Rimes, Professor Julie Cupples, Fiona Macintosh, Ebinehita Iyere, Professor Asma Khalil
Fri 11 Nov 2022
Singer LeAnn Rimes talks to Anita Rani.
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Woman in the Royal Navy 'was raped on ship'
Thu 10 Nov 2022
A woman who served in the Royal Navy speaks about being raped while serving on a ship.
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Women's Rugby League World Cup, Matt Hancock in the jungle, Friends Forever - Nina, US midterms
Wed 9 Nov 2022
The women's ambassador for the Rugby League World Cup on how to get more women involved.
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Textile designer Althea McNish, Albanian female asylum seekers, endurance athlete Jenny Tough
Tue 8 Nov 2022
Crime writer Denise Mina on why she has changed her twitter display name to Elon Musk.
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Lorna Luft on White Christmas. Mussolini's daughter. COP 27
Mon 7 Nov 2022
Lorna Luft on her role in White Christmas. Plus a new biography of Mussolini's daughter.
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Beth Mead, Female doctors and the menopause, Donna Patterson, Policing, Shonda Rhimes & Betsy Beers, Caroline and Rose Quentin
Sat 5 Nov 2022
Beth Mead, England Women's Player of the Year on Qatar hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022.
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