Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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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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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Diana Parkes, Ukraine, Unmodified bodies, Joanna Scanlan, Margaret Atwood
Sat 26 Feb 2022
An exclusive interview with Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and future Queen Consort.
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Ukraine, Matchgirls' strike of 1888, Equal pay deal for US women’s national football team, and Briony Greenhill
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Ukraine, the matchgirls' strike, equal pay deal for US Women’s soccer, & Briony Greenhill.
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Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, Diana Parkes, David Trickey, Baroness Floella Benjamin
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall talks exclusively to Woman’s Hour.
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Margaret Atwood, Harriet Harman MP, Joanna Scanlan, Sportswomen's urinary incontinence
Wed 23 Feb 2022
The Canadian bestselling author on feminism, grief and being in your 80s.
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Competitive cheerleading, Criminal records, Professor Clare Chambers
Tue 22 Feb 2022
Political philosopher Clare Chambers explores why we feel the need to change our bodies.
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Disabled children and exercise, Women escaping domestic abuse, and 'rent farming', Whistler's Woman in White
Mon 21 Feb 2022
First ever guidelines on physical activity published for disabled children & young people.
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