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2036 episodes transcribedMother and daughter duo, Andi and Miquita Oliver, have started a new podcast, Stirring it Up, where they ask guests to join them at their kitchen tabl...
New research by the Sutton Trust reveals that more than a third of A-level students in England are considering living at home if they get into their p...
The rapper Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years for the shooting of fellow musician Megan Thee Stallion. She required surgery to remove bullet fr...
A judge in Texas has ruled that women who experience pregnancy complications are temporarily exempt from the state's abortion bans. The ruling comes a...
A few months ago, Sarah de Lagarde came on Woman's Hour to share her incredible story of survival. She had fallen on to the Tube tracks at a north Lon...
All this week on Woman’s Hour we’ve been discussing the topic of loneliness as women and young people are statistically more likely to experience it....
Actor and writer Georgie Grier has shared a post on social media after her opening show at the Edinburgh Fringe had just one person in the audience. S...
All this week on the programme we are looking at the topic of loneliness. Women are statistically more likely to be lonely and so in today's programme...
The singer Lizzo, and her production company, are being sued by three former dancers. They have been accused of sexual and racial harassment, disabili...
Frances Haugen is the former Facebook employee turned whistleblower who extracted more than 22,000 pages of documents from the company revealing its i...
In 2018, two new mothers died weeks apart after giving birth in two Kent hospitals from a herpes infection. Kimberley Sampson and Samantha Mulcahy bot...
What role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour? Several campaigns have aimed to tackle this, the most recent being the Mayor of London’s Maaat...
In their second game of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, England’s Lionesses face Denmark. Woman’s Hour will be following the game live, bringing you...
The Irish musician and activist Sinéad O Connor has died, aged 56. She was best known for her single Nothing Compares 2 U, released in 1990, which re...
What role should men play in stopping sexist behaviour? Several campaigns have aimed to tackle this, the most recent being the Mayor of London’s Maaat...
Over the last few months we have been hearing the stories of women who believe that they were raised by mothers who have Narcissistic Personality Diso...
There has been a significant increase in the number of non-surgical aesthetic procedures over the past decade. And now the largest academic survey to...
The law on flexible working changed this week. New rules should make it easier for employees to argue for a flexible working arrangement. It’s the cul...
As the film Barbie opens in cinemas today, Set Decorator Katie Spencer and Production Designer Sarah Greenwood discuss how they created Barbieland in...
The law on flexible working changes today. This should make it easier for employees to argue for a flexible working arrangement. It’s the culmination...
