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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Sister Bliss, DC Comics character, Nubia, the Ockenden Review, Lucy Easthope, Ukrainian MPs, Listener Dorothy
Sat 2 Apr 2022
DJ Sister Bliss and Professor Lauren Stewart discuss the impact of music on our mood.
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Nubya, Justyna Wydrzynska, Ramadan and Parasocial relationships
Fri 1 Apr 2022
Anita speaks to the cartoonist Robyn Smith about Nubia the first Black superwoman.
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Donna Ockenden and The Ockenden Review
Thu 31 Mar 2022
The Ockenden Review, the biggest maternity scandal in the NHS's history.
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Sister Bliss, Lucy Easthope, Rachel Maclean on Domestic Abuse Plan, Ockenden Review
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Sister Bliss and Professor Lauren Stewart on the power of music to affect our emotions.
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Ella Jarmulska, Dr Caitlin Dean, Nicola Cutcher, Professor Marian Knight, Rose Gallagher, Threads, Marion Lees McPherson
Tue 29 Mar 2022
The women helping to rescue women and children fleeing Ukraine
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Ukrainian MPs, Women Surgeons, Remember Monday
Mon 28 Mar 2022
We speak to three MPs who are members of the Women’s Diplomatic Battalion of Ukraine.
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Body hair, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out, UK ambassador to Ukraine, Actor Ruth Wilson, Kinship care, Duvets
Sat 26 Mar 2022
Where's the body hair in period drama?
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Separate duvets, Asma Khan, South Asian women in Regency England
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Using two duvets to help your sleep and your relationship.
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Actor Ruth Wilson. Kinship Care. Rear Admiral Jude Terry. Body hair in history.
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Actor Ruth Wilson talks to Emma Barnett about her latest roles on stage and screen.
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Ash Barty retires from tennis, Growing up in poverty, Shame, Threads, Men and sexual entitlement
Wed 23 Mar 2022
At 25, Ash Barty walks away from tennis as the world's number one player.
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Who was Ellen Wilkinson? Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN World Food Programme, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks out.
Tue 22 Mar 2022
Who was Ellen Wilkinson? And Mary-Ellen McGroarty from the UN’s World Food Programme.
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Maggie Murray, Melinda Simmons, Emma Beddington and Sandy Black, Tina Backhouse, Matthew Greenwood
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Female photographers documenting resistance across generations feature in a new exhibition
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, Barbara Lisicki & Cook for Ukraine
Sat 19 Mar 2022
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, & Cook for Ukraine.
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Barbara Lisicki & Ruth Madeley, US basketball player Brittney Griner, Red Nose Day, Inclusive Britain, Native children in the US
Fri 18 Mar 2022
Ruth Madeley plays co-founder of Direct Action Network Barbara Lisicki in a new BBC2 drama
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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe's release
Thu 17 Mar 2022
The Foreign Secretary and Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss MP joins the programme.
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Diane Dodds, Child Q and Stripsearch, Charlotte Mendelson, Cook for Ukraine
Wed 16 Mar 2022
The DUP's Dianne Dodds and novelist Charlotte Mendelson on her new book.
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Is maternity fashion changing? Marina Ovsyannikova, Caroline Lucas MP & Dame Sue Ion, South Korean new PM, Surnames, Threads
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Pregnant and showing off your pregnancy bump or quite the opposite, trying to hide it?
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Plaque for women priests, Young women coming off the Pill, Electric cars
Mon 14 Mar 2022
A plaque put up to mark the first women priests' ordination finally includes their names.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Women and Equalities Minister, Rachael Denhollander & USA Gymnastics, Betty Boo
Sat 12 Mar 2022
We explore what role the Women and Equalities Minister should serve.
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Betty Boo, Rana Ayuub, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Betty Boo is back with her first solo single in nearly thirty years.
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Figs in Wigs & 'Little Wimmin', Former Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, Rachael Denhollander & USA Gymnastics
Thu 10 Mar 2022
'Little Women', 'Little Wimmin' and the all-female collective Figs in Wigs.
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Women and Equalities Minister. Celebrating the achievement of mothers. Ukraine refugees.
Tue 8 Mar 2022
Women and Equalities Minister. Celebrating the achievement of mothers.
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HER Ensemble, Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Surrogacy & IVF in Ukraine, Anne Dickson
Mon 7 Mar 2022
The welfare of surrogate mothers in Ukraine
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Priya Ragu, Women in the Ukraine, Inheritance laws
Sat 5 Mar 2022
Swiss-Tamil singer Priya Ragu and how women are coping with the situation in Ukraine.
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Priya Ragu, Olena Symonenko, Mountain climbing
Fri 4 Mar 2022
Priya Ragu on her Tamil-inspired music
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Women's safety, Paralympics
Thu 3 Mar 2022
Where are we in the fight to deal with violence against women and girls?
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Dr Suzanne Simard & plant intelligence, Refugee women, Scottish govt & GRC, Inheritance laws & abusers, Sexist uniforms
Wed 2 Mar 2022
Over thirty years of ground-breaking research on plant communication and intelligence.
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Lucy Cooke on the female of the species, Furniture poverty, Threads
Tue 1 Mar 2022
The zoologist Lucy Cooke on her new book which aims redefine the female of the species.
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Ukrainian women on the front line, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dangerous women and I, Mona Lisa
Mon 28 Feb 2022
We hear about the Ukrainian women taking up arms and fighting for their country.
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