12/08/2025
Episode Date: August 12, 2025Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
2113 episodes transcribedWomen's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
England goalkeeper and Lionesses legend Hannah Hampton joins Nuala McGovern on Woman's Hour fresh from winning the UEFA European Women's Championship....
What happens when a woman earns more than her partner, or is the sole earner in a household? For some couples, it’s a practical arrangement that works...
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
Listener Week continues on Woman's Hour as we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to the air.What happens when a woman ear...
Motor Neurone Disease is a condition that affects nerves found in the brain and spinal cord which tell our muscles what to do. The disease is life sho...
Listener Week continues on Woman's Hour as we bring your stories, ideas and the issues you want to hear about to the air.Carola got in touch to ask if...
To kick this week off, we heard from listener Melanie Williams. Melanie is forever having to adjust her seatbelt because of her bust size. She worries...
The Lionesses have made history by becoming the first England football squad to win a major trophy on foreign soil, they successfully defended their E...
From today, websites operating in the UK with pornographic content must ‘robustly’ age-check users. Under the Online Safety Act, platforms must protec...
More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups are warning of mass starvation in Gaza and pressing for governments to take acti...
The government has revealed details of its plans to cut foreign aid, with support for women's health and children's education in Africa facing the big...
Baroness Margaret Hodge tells Nuala McGovern why she thinks routine mammograms should be extended to women over 70. The former Labour MP was diagnosed...
The state of the UK’s water sector is barely out of the headlines at the moment and today a major review into the water industry in England and Wales...
For over 40 years, Helena Bonham Carter has delighted us with roles including Lucy Honeychurch in Room with a View, Princess Margaret in The Crown and...
Eight babies have been born in the UK using genetic material from three people to prevent devastating and often fatal conditions. The method, pioneer...
The bestselling author Louise Candlish joins Anita Rani to talk about her latest novel - A Neighbour's Guide to Murder - which explores the practice o...
A new report by London’s Victims’ Commissioner, Claire Waxman, says that victims are being forced to quit the criminal justice system in huge numbers...
The Invest in Women Taskforce, backed by the Department for Business and Trade, was set up last year with the aim of creating ‘the world’s biggest fun...
Last night England faced Wales in their final match of the group stage of the UEFA Women's Euro and England came out victorious - winning 6-1 and knoc...