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2269 episodes transcribedAll 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...
The mother whose daughters were murdered, and their photographs then shared on a police WhatsApp group gives a keynote speech this morning at the laun...
Zoe Saldaña has appeared in the top three grossing movies of all time – Avatar, Avatar: Way of Water and Avengers: Endgame. You may know her as Uhura...
Nuala McGovern is joined by one woman who has had a huge impact on the women's game over many years - Hope Powell - the former Lioness head coach will...
In her only broadcast interview, Louise Townsend, the mother of Olivia Perks who took her own life in 2019 whilst at Sandhurst Military Academy, speak...
Gracie Nuttall, sister of Laura Nuttall who died aged 23 in May of a glioblastoma, and Megan Fryer-Kelsey, whose brother Ezra died eleven years ago of...
Almost half of women in England and Wales don’t trust the police enough to report a crime. That’s according to a recent report from the Tony Blair Ins...
In her first broadcast interview, Louise Townsend, the mother of Olivia Perks who took her own life in 2019 whilst at Sandhurst Military Academy, spea...
