Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Rugby player Meg Jones, 鈥楥arents鈥�, 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 Hour: actor Robin Wright, life after a parent鈥檚 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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Afghanistan earthquake, Friendship anxiety, Invasive Species play
Thu 4 Sep 2025
How women and girls have been affected by the huge earthquake in Afghanistan.
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American Vogue's new editor, Sandie Peggie tribunal, Sabrina Carpenter's lyrics, Life after a parent's suicide
Wed 3 Sep 2025
We profile Dame Anna Wintour's successor, Chloe Malle.
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Femicide Census, Period Pain, Eve Myles, Forced Adoption
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Why is the number of women being killed by men remaining consistent and not going down?
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Childcare, Robin Wright on The Girlfriend, Life after a loved one's suicide
Mon 1 Sep 2025
We discuss early years childcare in England and the government's 30 funded hours scheme.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Forced adoptions, Author Paula Byrne, Is rugby safe?, Stalking and heart disease, Wool Sourcing
Sat 30 Aug 2025
Calls for a state apology for historic forced adoptions.
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Forced adoptions, Belinda Carlisle, Harvest mice release
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Calls for a state apology for historic forced adoptions.
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Double jeopardy fight, Fertility rates, SRY tests, Wool sourcing
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Ann Ming overturned the double jeopardy rule after her daughter Julie was murdered.
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Child abuse & VAWG, Novelist Miriam Robinson, Taylor Swift's engagement, Private midwives
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Child protection organisations' concerns on the govt's strategy on child abuse & VAWG.
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