Woman's Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Global surrogacy, Karen Carney, Low-income & SEND, Talc trial
The ethics of surrogacy and its impact pegged to a new report by the UN.
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Liz Kendall MP, Women & Tourette Syndrome, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Singing to help postnatal depression
Liz Kendall, Secretary for Science, Innovation and Technology on women in tech
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Bobbi Brown, Domestic abuse & family courts, Black maternal health film
The American make-up entrepreneur on her life and work.
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Dads and working flexibly, Baroness Margaret Thatcher centenary, Diane Keaton legacy
Is it more difficult for fathers to find flexibility in the workplace?
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Sally Wainwright, Kellie Bright, AI girlfriends, lessons from the Pelicot trial
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, her drama about a group of mid-life women's punk rock band
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Pelicot trial, Lucy Guo, Bebe Jackson, Travel writing
The latest in the Gis猫le Pelicot case after a man appealed his conviction for rape.
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Tanita Tikaram, Sally Wainwright, Nature and kids with SEND
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two leading US women's rights activists reflect on the Epstein files.
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Rugby player Meg Jones, 鈥楥arents鈥�, Actor Andrea Riseborough
Meg Jones on winning the Rugby World Cup.
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Rugby World Cup, Tracey Ullman, Janet Skinner, Ava Pickett
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
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
Special constable, TV personality, photographer, also married to rock legend Rod Stewart.
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Child benefit cap, Prof Edith Heard, Book banning
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
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
The singer-songwriter on her long career in music and campaigning.
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Driving anxiety, Erika Kirk profile, Marie Antoinette style
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
The first female president of the Supreme Court.
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Surgeons, Susie Dent, Model diversity, Nepal's Prime Minister
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
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
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
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
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
TV presenter Davina McCall on her stellar career and surviving brain surgery.
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Davina McCall, Highland Games, Essex accents
TV presenter Davina McCall on her stellar career and surviving brain surgery.
