Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Netball, Ashling Murphy, Adult Literacy, Universities & NDAs
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Higher Education Minister MIchelle Donelan discusses universities and the ending of NDAs
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Winter Olympics; Ashling Murphy; Gender roles and parenting; Investing in female-founded companies
Mon 17 Jan 2022
Skeleton racer-Laura Deas, one of Team GB's athletes competing in the Winter Olympics 2022
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Anti vaccine mandate, Witchcraft, Helen Pankhurst
Sat 15 Jan 2022
Helen Pankhurst, on the legacy of the Suffragettes and protest.
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Midwives refusing the vaccine, Spiking inquiry, 50 years of diet & fitness with Rosemary Conley, Slam poetry
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Midwives refusing the vaccine.
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Emma Gannon on her new book (Dis)connected, Virginia Giuffre US civil case, Helen Pankhurst
Thu 13 Jan 2022
Emma Gannon on her new book new book, (Dis)connected.
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Safety of Women; Sarak Sak; Adjoa Andoh and Julie Cooper; Women on Coins; Adolescent Skin
Wed 12 Jan 2022
Actor Adjoa Andoh and composer Julie Cooper talk about their new collaboration Continuum.
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Rhian Graham, Who is Sue Gray?, Hopeline19
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Emma speaks to Rhian Graham, one of the Colston Four.
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Helena Merriman, Bus driver Tracey Scholes, Pardons for women tried as witches
Mon 10 Jan 2022
The presenter of Room 5 and Tunnel 29 on her own life-changing medical diagnosis.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Putting your life on the page, Dr Lin Berwick, Poorna Bell
Sat 8 Jan 2022
Psychotherapist Julia Samuel on the therapeutic benefits of writing our life stories.
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Preet Chandi/'Polar Preet'; 'Collector culture'; Playwright, Nell Leyshon; Drones & night street safety; Novelist, Nikki May;
Fri 7 Jan 2022
Preet Chandi: believed to be 1st woman of colour to complete a solo crossing on Antarctica
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Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Dr Lin Berwick, Women in the 1921 Census
Thu 6 Jan 2022
The Derry Girls actor Jamie-Lee O'Donnell on her new show about prison officers.
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Scottish Government consultation on gender recognition laws, Hazel Hunt, Pragna Patel, Rosie de Courcy & Megan Nolan
Wed 5 Jan 2022
Scottish government consultation on gender recognition laws.
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Poorna Bell, Scars, Adele Parks
Tue 4 Jan 2022
Making a change for the better in 2022: we speak to Poorna Bell about getting stronger.
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Putting your life on the page with Ann Patchett, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel and Arifa Akbar
Mon 3 Jan 2022
Memoirs, morning pages: why do so many of us want to put our lives on the page?
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Sarah Ransome, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Donna Ward
New Year's Day 2022
Sarah Ransome, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, tells her story.
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Sarah Ransome, Scars, Sequins
Fri 31 Dec 2021
Sarah Ransome, a victim of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, tells her story.
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Ghislaine Maxwell verdict, Novelist Susie Boyt, Girls' education in Afghanistan, Disability rights activist Abia Akram
Thu 30 Dec 2021
Pakistani disability rights activist, Abia Akram - one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021.
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Donna Ward on reclaiming spinsterhood; Comedian Liz Kingsman; Scars - Jayne; BBC 100 Objects
Wed 29 Dec 2021
Australian author Donna Ward on what it means to be accidentally single and childless.
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Women of Snow and Ice; Sheila Watt-Cloutier; Antarctic Women; Nancy Campbell and Cold Water Swimming
Tue 28 Dec 2021
Women inspired to protect, write about, scientifically study and experience the cold.
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A Woman's Hour Christmas mixtape
Mon 27 Dec 2021
Emma Barnett presents a Woman's Hour Christmas mixtape.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Claire Foy, Joan Collins & the musical collaboration of Carol Ann Duffy and Kathryn Williams
Christmas Day 2021
Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll
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The ladies of the Posh Club Dance Club. A Musical Family Christmas. Volunteering.
Christmas Eve 2021
The ladies of the Posh Club Dance Club. A Musical Family Christmas. Volunteering.
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Joan Collins, Prof Sharon Peacock, Jacquie White & Mary Bousted, Kayley Inuksuk Mackay & Tiffany Kuliktana Ayalik, Usma Saeed
Thu 23 Dec 2021
The acting legend Dame Joan Collins on her life and seven decades in showbusiness.
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Susie Dent, Emma Fuller, Charlie Jeer, Stephen Wright, Under Pressure series with Hawra and Mustafa on stillbirth
Wed 22 Dec 2021
Countdown Star and lexicographer Susie Dent on festive words.
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Carol Ann Duffy and Kathryn Williams, Care worker shortages, Peng Shuai, Divisive TV
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Poet Carol Ann Duffy and folk musician Kathryn Williams on their new collaboration.
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Claire Foy as the Duchess of Argyll, Janey Godley, Karen Teasdale-Robson, Edwina Paisley
Mon 20 Dec 2021
The award-winning actor Claire Foy on her role as the Duchess of Argyll in a new BBC drama
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Tamsin Greig, bell hooks, Grandparents and childcare
Sat 18 Dec 2021
Actor Tamsin Greig on her latest role as the legendary theatrical agent Peggy Ramsay.
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Fridge Girl, Gen Z, bell hooks
Fri 17 Dec 2021
How a fridge falling on a woman dancing could have actually been a good thing!
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Lucy Chappell; Æthelgifu the Medieval Abbess; Women on Boards; Women and Festive TV.
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Chief Scientific Officer Lucy Chappell and we hear about the medieval abbess Æthelgifu.
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Quaranteens, New police strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, Jess Duckworth
Wed 15 Dec 2021
What's the impact of missing out on traditional teen experiences because of Covid?
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