Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Tanita Tikaram, Sally Wainwright, Nature and kids with SEND
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram on fame in the late 1980s, identity and belonging.
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Kemi Badenoch's leadership, Manon Garcia on Gisele Pelicot, Joy Gregory
Wed 8 Oct 2025
As she makes her second speech, how has the Conservative party leader's conference gone?
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AI 'girlfriends', Japan's PM designate, Hope Reese, Musica Secreta
Tue 7 Oct 2025
The rise of AI 'girlfriends' with new websites offering online intimacy.
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Kellie Bright, Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, Summer of Sport
Mon 6 Oct 2025
Is the SEND system working for children with special educational needs?
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Melinda French Gates, Rebecca Solnit, 'Carents', Actor Tracey Ullman
Sat 4 Oct 2025
The most powerful woman in philanthropy on her fight for women's health.
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Melinda French Gates, Manchester synagogue attack, Rochdale grooming
Fri 3 Oct 2025
The philanthropist on her post-divorce enterprise aiming to put power into women's hands.
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Met Police, Secrets, Dirty Looks exhibition
Thu 2 Oct 2025
How much does a toxic culture still exist within London's Metropolitan Police force?
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Gloria Allred and Rebecca Solnit on Epstein, New head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli
Wed 1 Oct 2025
Two leading US women's rights activists reflect on the Epstein files.
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Rugby player Meg Jones, ‘Carents’, Actor Andrea Riseborough
Tue 30 Sep 2025
Meg Jones on winning the Rugby World Cup.
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Rugby World Cup, Tracey Ullman, Janet Skinner, Ava Pickett
Mon 29 Sep 2025
We celebrate England's Red Roses' win at the Rugby World Cup.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Annie Lennox, Motorway anxiety, New play Punch
Sat 27 Sep 2025
Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox talks about her long career in music and campaigning.
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Penny Lancaster, New play Punch, Rugby grounds-women
Fri 26 Sep 2025
Special constable, TV personality, photographer, also married to rock legend Rod Stewart.
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Child benefit cap, Prof Edith Heard, Book banning
Thu 25 Sep 2025
We look at the mounting pressure to scrap the two child benefit cap.
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Post childbirth and sex, Juliet Stevenson, Ruby Tui
Wed 24 Sep 2025
Post having a baby - how do you navigate being a mother, partner and sexual being?
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Annie Lennox, Paracetamol in pregnancy, Liquid BBLs, Phubbing
Tue 23 Sep 2025
The singer-songwriter on her long career in music and campaigning.
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Driving anxiety, Erika Kirk profile, Marie Antoinette style
Mon 22 Sep 2025
Why do some women develop anxiety around driving in mid-life, and what can help?
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Baroness Hale, Race Across the World, Cryptic pregnancy, Patricia Lockwood, Sudanese women, Susie Dent
Sat 20 Sep 2025
The first female president of the Supreme Court.
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Surgeons, Susie Dent, Model diversity, Nepal's Prime Minister
Fri 19 Sep 2025
New research highlights leniency towards surgeons involved in sexual misconduct.
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Nuclear energy, SEND reform, Anita on Celebrity Race Across the World
Thu 18 Sep 2025
What women in the UK really feel about more nuclear energy production.
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Cryptic pregnancy, actor Karen Pittman, writer Nikita Gill, Agnes Wanjiru
Wed 17 Sep 2025
We explore the fact that some women don't know they are pregnant until their baby is born.
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Baroness Hale, Trump’s visit, Afro hair care
Tue 16 Sep 2025
The first female president of the Supreme Court on trust in the police.
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Patricia Lockwood, SEND rally, Maternity review, Kathrine Switzer
Mon 15 Sep 2025
Patricia Lockwood on her latest book, which echoes her own experience with Long Covid.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Davina McCall, Papua New Guinea, Jung Chang, Fawning, Sophie Ellis Bextor
Sat 13 Sep 2025
TV presenter Davina McCall on her stellar career and surviving brain surgery.
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Davina McCall, Highland Games, Essex accents
Fri 12 Sep 2025
TV presenter Davina McCall on her stellar career and surviving brain surgery.
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pregnancy drug DES, Novelist Heather Morris
Thu 11 Sep 2025
The Murder on the Dancefloor hitmaker has a new album, Perimenopop
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Noel Clarke libel case, Bras after cancer, Comedian Emma Doran
Wed 10 Sep 2025
The Guardian journalists behind the Noel Clarke libel case on uncovering the story.
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Jung Chang, Labour deputy leader race, Jaysley Beck's mother.
Tue 9 Sep 2025
The Chinese-British author has written a sequel to her global bestseller Wild Swans.
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Angela Rayner fallout, Do we need to take creatine? Papua New Guinea
Mon 8 Sep 2025
After Angela Rayner's departure, we look at her legacy & the top women in the Labour Party
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: actor Robin Wright, life after a parent’s suicide, disliking your child's friends
Sat 6 Sep 2025
Actor Robin Wright on directing and starring in her latest series, The Girlfriend.
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Menopause and severe depression, Disliking your child's friends, Giorgio Armani
Fri 5 Sep 2025
What are the links between menopause and wanting to end your life?
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