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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My Best Day - Diane Barker, Victims' commissioner Claire Waxman, Playwright Tanika Gupta
Fri 13 Sep 2019
Diane Barker on her Best Day in eastern Tibet, and victims' commissioner Claire Waxman.
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Susan Sontag, Feminist economics, Waad-al-Kateab
Thu 12 Sep 2019
Susan Sontag's life and work, intersectionality in feminist economics, Waad Al Kateab.
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My Best Day, Marina Litvinenko, Cancer testing
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Marina Litvinenko on the play about her husband's death. Population-wide cancer testing.
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Sci-Fi, Sex Discrimination, My Best Day
Tue 10 Sep 2019
The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
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Phone-in: The Psychological Impact of Brexit
Mon 9 Sep 2019
What impact is the continuing conflict over Brexit having on you?
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Jackie Kay, Equal pay, Fussy eating, Period sex
Sat 7 Sep 2019
Weekend Woman's Hour: Jackie Kay, women in Parliament, fussy eating and period sex taboo.
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The consumer power of women, The week in politics, Author Sue Cheung
Fri 6 Sep 2019
How much power and responsibility do women consumers really have?
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National Poet for Scotland Jackie Kay, Author Tracy Chevalier, Growing up with a child with cancer
Thu 5 Sep 2019
National Poet for Scotland Jackie Kay on a new production of her 1980s play Chiaruscuro.
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Extreme fussy eating, Pay, Off the Rails
Wed 4 Sep 2019
Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder; Carrie Gracie's book Equal; youth work.
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Parenting: The Other Mother
Wed 4 Sep 2019
Comedian Jen Brister talks about what it was like becoming a non-biological mother.
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Being the 'other' mother, CMV
Tue 3 Sep 2019
Jen Brister on being the non-biological lesbian mum. Parliamentary women to watch and CMV.
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Period sex, Women and insomnia, Street harassment
Mon 2 Sep 2019
Why is having sex when you've got your period such a taboo subject?
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Cara Delevingne, Women in construction, Lisa Jewell
Sat 31 Aug 2019
Weekend Woman's Hour: Cara Delevingne, Harvey Weinstein documentary, women in construction
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Director Sam Taylor-Johnson, Actor and model Cara Delevingne
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson talks about her new film A Million Little Pieces.
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Parenting: What's the role of a PTA?
Thu 29 Aug 2019
How do you encourage more people to volunteer for a school's Parent Teacher Association?
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Is work working? Harvey Weinstein, Fedina Zhou
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Is the jobs market working for women? Plus new film about Harvey Weinstein.
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The Menstrual cycle: what's normal?
Wed 28 Aug 2019
Menstrual cycle length, Lisa Jewell and cook the perfect Caribbean jackfruit fritters.
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Jada Pinkett Smith, Summer Hats, Female Democratic Front-Runners 2020 US Elections
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Jada Pinkett Smith on her three-generation chat show, Red Table Talk
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Women in Construction
Mon 26 Aug 2019
What is it like to work in construction? And how can the industry attract more women?
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Listener Week
Sat 24 Aug 2019
Happy single women, book clubs and attention deficit disorder in girls.
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Listener Week: Day Five
Fri 23 Aug 2019
Mothers and sons, renting at 50, and bereavement and appetite loss.
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Listener Week: Day Four
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Listener Week; Falling out with your BFF. Oldest UK Book Club? Young entrepreneurs.
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Listener Week: Day Three
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Life after the death of a partner, Women and Ironman events, PTAs.
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Listener Week: Day Two
Tue 20 Aug 2019
The wellness industry and its effects on women. Plus young women and unwanted attention.
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17/08/2019
Sat 17 Aug 2019
Edna Adan Ismail discusses FGM, composer Errollyn Wallen, and talking to kids about racism
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Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls and Rohingya women refugees
Fri 16 Aug 2019
A new dramatization of The Country Girls, and hip-hop dance group Zoo Nation.
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Award-winning author and former Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman
Thu 15 Aug 2019
Author Malorie Blackman, Prof Lisa Avalos, Dorothy L Sayers Society and Errollyn Wallen.
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Parenting: Talking to Your Kids About Race and Racism
Wed 14 Aug 2019
Talking to your kids about race and racism with Dr Pragya Agarwal and Freddie Harrel.
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