Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Listener Week: Psychedelics, Strongwomen, Kleptomania, Living funerals, Being a refugee, Women in heavy metal
Sat 26 Aug 2023
A selection of the best content inspired by our listeners for Listener Week.
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Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living
Fri 25 Aug 2023
A listener asks if generative AI will make creative jobs obsolete
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Listener Week: Psychedelics, Peripheral friendship, Posthumous conception, Beach Guardian
Thu 24 Aug 2023
Exploring the potential of using psychedelic drugs in medicine for women.
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Listener Week: Is it ever good to give up on dreams? Working class women & university, Living funerals
Wed 23 Aug 2023
We鈥檙e often told not to give up on our dreams, but what if they鈥檙e causing unhappiness?
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Listener Week: Ukrainian women soldiers, Long lost families, Strong women, Refugees, Eating Alone
Tue 22 Aug 2023
We find out more about the 5,000 soldiers on the front line in Ukraine who are women
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Listener Week: Women's World Cup final, Shoplifting, Heavy metal
Mon 21 Aug 2023
Original Lioness Sue Whyatt and Baller FC's Jo Clark join Nuala after the World Cup final
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Women's World Cup final, Surviving a WWII Japanese prison camp, Care leavers, 'Older-age orphans', Nasa astronaut Christina Koch
Sat 19 Aug 2023
Former Lioness Ellen White on England reaching the Fifa Women's World Cup final.
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Ellen White, How to ask for a pay rise, astronaut Christina Koch, Morning-after pill
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Former Lioness Ellen White on England reaching the FIFA Women's World Cup final.
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Lionesses' legacy, Sarah Greene, Care leavers, Abortion
Thu 17 Aug 2023
Impact on UK girls, after England's Lionesses reach the FIFA Women's World Cup final.
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Martine McCutcheon, anxiety & the perimenopause, Who is Fani Willis? Period huts in Nepal
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Should parents be kept in the loop re health decisions even when a young person is 18+?
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Youngest Afghan mayor, Romanticising your life, surviving WWII Japanese prison camp, Big tech & sexuality
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Should we all be romanticising our lives more?
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Women's football World Cup, 'Older-age orphans', Channel swimming with a stoma, Caroline Moran, Women's feet
Mon 14 Aug 2023
Women鈥檚 football World Cup predictions with Diane Bronze, mum of defender Lucy Bronze.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Megan Thee Stallion, Students Living at Home, Sarah de Lagarde, Dr Nadia Nadim
Sat 12 Aug 2023
Rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced for the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
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Andi and Miquita Oliver, Jacqueline Springer, Emma Rawicz, Afghanistan's most successful female footballer - Dr Nadia Nadim
Fri 11 Aug 2023
The mother-daughter duo on their new podcast and passion for sharing food.
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Barbie in China, The Hundred: women's cricket, Women & student loans, Why university students are staying at home
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Barbie the film is a surprising hit in China. Why are feminists flocking to see it?
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Megan Thee Stallion, Fertility Anxiety, Colombian striker Linda Caicedo
Wed 9 Aug 2023
Rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced for the shooting of Megan Thee Stallion.
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The case against Bill Cosby, Live music from Chloe Matharu, The world of incels, Texas abortion law
Tue 8 Aug 2023
Why did Andrea Constand's case against Bill Cosby result in a 3 year prison sentence?
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Sarah De Lagarde's bionic arm, Women's World Cup update, Kim Sherwood on writing Bond
Mon 7 Aug 2023
The woman who fell under a tube train, losing an arm and leg, on her new bionic arm.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Loneliness & health, Concepts of Renaissance beauty & Rock Follies musical
Sat 5 Aug 2023
Psychiatrist Dr Farhana Mann from UCL discusses the impact of loneliness on our health.
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Netball World Cup, Comedian Georgie Grier, Can design heal loneliness?
Fri 4 Aug 2023
Ahead of Sunday's Netball World Cup final, Katharine Merry joins us from Cape Town.
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Loneliness, Lucy Calcines, Nicole Travolta, Kids at risk
Thu 3 Aug 2023
How to cope with feelings of loneliness and, if possible, reframe them.
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Accusations against Lizzo, Power Lister Jodie Ounsley, Concepts of renaissance beauty, Loneliness, Rock Follies musical
Wed 2 Aug 2023
The latest on the accusations made against pop star Lizzo with a correspondent in LA.
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, Air pollution and pregnancy, BookTok, Loneliness and health
Tue 1 Aug 2023
The woman who walked out of Facebook HQ with 22,000 photos of documents tells us why.
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Author Jane Fallon, Two mothers talk about daughters' deaths, Netball World Cup, Young women and loneliness, Nouhaila Benzina
Mon 31 Jul 2023
Best-selling author Jane Fallon on her latest novel, Over Sharing.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Men and stopping sexist behaviour, Grenfell play, Date Stacking
Sat 29 Jul 2023
What role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour?
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Women's Football World Cup, Black Beauty, Women in the city, Italian Lifeguard
Fri 28 Jul 2023
Live coverage of the Women's World Cup game between England and Denmark
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Sinead O'Connor tribute, Singapore is scheduled to execute a woman, Scottish women artists, Date stacking, Femorabilia.
Thu 27 Jul 2023
We hear a special performance that Sin茅ad O'Connor gave to Woman鈥檚 Hour in 2013.
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Men and stopping sexist behaviour, Beauty Salons close in Afghanistan, Chief Midwife
Wed 26 Jul 2023
What role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour?
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Narcissistic mothers, Grenfell play, Orca whale mothers & their sons
Tue 25 Jul 2023
Two psychotherapists discuss parenting and narcissism.
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Post botulinum toxin experiences, Photographing all your objects, FGM
Mon 24 Jul 2023
New research into adverse events following the administration of botulinum toxin.
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