Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
2268 episodes transcribedCressida Cowell says, "I will be talking about the thoroughly modern magic of reading and how that magic can and must be made accessible to absolutely...
Amika George is a 19 year old student, activist, and founder of #FreePeriods. She's been campaigning to combat period poverty in schools. 200,000 sign...
Harriet Wistrich is a human rights lawyer and founder and director of the Centre for Women's Justice. Her cases are consistently in the news – the fig...
Nadiya Hussain says, "My edition of Woman’s Hour focuses on time, and our lack of it! Having enough ‘time’ for everything feels like a constant battle...
Black women are five times more likely to die in childbirth compared to white women. We hear the personal experiences of two women: Candice Brathwaite...
How best can we harness the huge amount of interest created by recent big sporting moments to inspire more women and girls to take up sport? Jenni is...
Ahead of the world premiere of ’Earthward’ at the Proms, young composer Alexia Sloane talks to Jenni about the upcoming performance and the causes tha...
We'll be taking a closer look at The Squad: the Congresswomen at the centre of Twitter comments made by President Trump. Who are Alexandra Ocasio Cort...
Live from Liverpool's M&S Bank Arena for the Netball World Cup, we're joined by BBC Sport's Hazel Irvine, former player Sara Bayman and Commonweal...
Black women in Britain are now five times more likely to die during pregnancy, birth or postpartum than white women. This is according to the latest s...
Cash Carraway tells us about her life as a working class woman and mother living in poverty today.We discuss the importance of parental leave policy t...
The dress historian Amber Butchart has been finding out about the history of some of the summer wardrobe staples we all buy or dig out every year - t...
Olivier, Tony and Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave on her new stage play, Vienna 1934–Munich 1938 – a production which she has written, devised,...
The Girl Code: what is it and what does it include? How about "not going out with your friend's ex"? We find out with Moya Lothian-McLean and Ellen Sc...
Today’s we’re looking at an important milestone in a child’s life: when they move up from primary to secondary school. Can you remember how it felt?...
O’Hooley and Tidow the English Folk duo from Yorkshire talk to us about their track Gentleman Jack and perform Beryl.We discuss how some women’s centr...
Two women have been picked for top European Union positions for the first time. In a surprise choice, Germany’s defence minister Ursula von der Leyen...
A new report by the Children’s Commissioner for England estimates that there are 2.3 million children in England growing up with a vulnerable family b...
You’re ready for that nerve wracking event in every parent’s life – the school parents’ evening. You’ve done your best to look neat and tidy when your...
New research from the University of York shows that the number of women dependent on cannabis has been underestimated and that there is significant ge...
