Woman's Hour
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
2079 episodes transcribed15/05/2025
Episode Date: May 15, 2025The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
Isabel Allende, Sex Matters, Julia Gillard, P Diddy trial
Episode Date: May 14, 2025Nuala McGovern is joined by the best-selling author Isabel Allende about her latest book My Name is Emilia Del Valle. It follows a young female journa...
Chemical Control, Nadia Conners, Kirsty Wark
Episode Date: May 13, 2025Kate, not her real name, has spoken to BBC Radio 4's File on Four Investigates and has revealed that her husband was secretly drugging and raping her...
Beverley Knight, ADHD and menopause, Barrister Robin Moira White
Episode Date: May 12, 2025Sister Rosetta Tharpe was known as the ‘godmother of rock and roll’ and influenced countless musicians from Elvis to Johnny Cash. Now Olivier Award-wi...
Kate Nash, Sarah Brown, Cardiac surgeon Dr Indu Deglurkar
Episode Date: May 12, 2025Rising to fame at the age of 20, Kate Nash soon became a staple of the British music scene in the late 2000s. Her first album, Made of Bricks, reached...
Weekend Woman's Hour: Naga Munchetty, Women designing for women, How we learn from our mistakes, Bristol sex workers doc
Episode Date: May 10, 2025Four years ago the broadcaster Naga Munchetty spoke out on air about her own awful experience of getting a coil fitted, and received a huge response f...
Naga Munchetty, Pope Leo XIV, Cancelling weddings, actor Laura Aikman
Episode Date: May 9, 2025Four years ago the writer and broadcaster Naga Munchetty spoke out on air about her own awful experience in getting a coil fitted, and received a huge...
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Episode Date: May 9, 2025The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
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Episode Date: May 8, 2025The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
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Episode Date: May 7, 2025The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
Women designing for women, The Sleep Room, Singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini
Episode Date: May 6, 2025A wave of female designers have been appointed to some of the leading high street brands - most recently Jacqui Markham at Whistles, Maddy Evans at M&...
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Episode Date: May 5, 2025The programme that offers a female perspective on the world
Weekend Woman’s Hour: Headteacher Emma Mills on smartphones, Paula Radcliffe, Met Gala fashion, London Grammar’s Hannah Reid
Episode Date: May 3, 2025The negative effects that smartphones and social media access can have on students has become a national conversation in recent months, with differing...
Headteacher Emma Mills on Smartphones, Dr Charlotte Proudman, A Musical Tribute to George Eliot
Episode Date: May 2, 2025Headteachers are gathering today in Harrogate for the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers. The negative effects on their st...
Viktoriia Roshchyna investigation, The Names, Met Gala fashion
Episode Date: May 1, 2025A recent investigation has unearthed previously unknown information about the death of a female Ukrainian journalist who had been looking in to war cr...
Frances Ryan, Grooming gangs, Dressing up for work
Episode Date: April 30, 2025For the last decade, Frances Ryan has been a columnist and reporter at the Guardian. She joins Nuala McGovern to discuss her new book - Who Wants Norm...
London Grammar’s Hannah Reid, Women and Trump, Domestic violence
Episode Date: April 29, 2025London Grammar frontwoman Hannah Reid joins Nuala McGovern to discuss more than a decade at the helm of the band, their fourth album The Greatest Love...
Paula Radcliffe, Belarusian political activist Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, High sugar baby food pouches, Virginia Giuffre
Episode Date: April 28, 2025Paula Radcliffe broke records and redefined women’s long-distance running, holding the marathon world record for more than 16 years. The four time Bri...
Louise Thompson, For Women Scotland, Decluttering, Musician Emma-Jean Thackray, Exclusion zones
Episode Date: April 26, 2025After suffering complications during the birth of her son, Leo, in 2021, former Made in Chelsea star Louise Thompson developed PTSD. She posted about...