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Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny discuss their new novel, the Singer Ella Eyre & the Science of Knitting

Episode Date: October 23, 2021

The former presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new book out, “State of Terror”, a political thriller written with the award winning au...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny, HPV kits, Aspire to adventure

Episode Date: October 22, 2021

The former presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new book out, “State of Terror”, a political thriller written with the award winning au...

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Singer Ella Eyre; Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah; Sofie Hagen; Neonatal deaths & stillbirth disparities; Covid & Xmas plans

Episode Date: October 21, 2021

Over the summer it's been tempting to think that the pandemic is almost over. But last night, Health Secretary Savid Javid insisted that "life is not...

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Baroness Ruth Davidson; The science of knitting; Spiking by injection

Episode Date: October 20, 2021

Former Scottish Conservative leader – the recently ennobled Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links - will be giving her maiden speech in the House of Lords...

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Dame Eileen Atkins; Equal pay; Harassment in Parliament; Composer Charlotte Bray

Episode Date: October 19, 2021

In our final discussion to mark our 75th anniversary we look at the issue of equal pay. This was identified as the area women most want to see change...

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Women pig farmers and mental health. Modern slavery. The cave woman rebuilding her business after Covid.

Episode Date: October 18, 2021

According to a new survey on mental wellbeing in agriculture, 58% of women in farming experience anxiety compared to 44% of men. What's the reason beh...

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Cush Jumbo, Predatory marriage, Equality in 2021, Tall women and dating, Sexual assault, consent and 'grey areas'

Episode Date: October 16, 2021

Cush Jumbo, star of The Good Wife and The Good Fight on her latest role playing Hamlet. Predatory marriage involves a vulnerable adult being led into...

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Tall women and dating, Vicky Featherstone on Maryland, Blackfishing, Equality in housework, Keisha the Sket

Episode Date: October 15, 2021

The average height of a female in the UK is 5ft 3in. What is life like for women at the other end of the spectrum, especially when it comes to dating?...

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Singer, Sophie Ellis-Bextor; Breast reconstruction delays; Urban hermits; Predatory marriage;

Episode Date: October 14, 2021

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has seven albums, five children, a podcast and her Live Kitchen Discos during lockdown were a means of virtual escapism for many,...

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Lucy Mangan, Girls & Education in Afghanistan, Sexual Assault, Consent & 'Grey Areas'

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

Who does what in your home? Sourcing school shoes? Calling the plumber? Sorting the threadworms? In her debut novel 'Are We Having Fun Yet?' author a...

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Cush Jumbo on playing Hamlet; Reaction to our equality poll; Day of the Scientist

Episode Date: October 12, 2021

Radio DJ Emma Wilson believes that the policeman Wayne Couzens who kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard exposed himself to her in an alleyway s...

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As we mark our 75th anniversary, how do you feel about equality in 2021? Your chance to have your say

Episode Date: October 11, 2021

To mark our 75th anniversary last week we commissioned a poll to explore how you feel about equality in 2021 and how much progress you believe women h...

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Weekend Woman's Hour: 75th Birthday, Mina Smallman, Celibacy, Professor Anita Hill

Episode Date: October 9, 2021

Baroness Brenda Hale is a former judge who served as the first female president of the Supreme Court. She has written a book, Spider Woman, that spans...

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Musician & singer, Abi Sampa; Celibacy; Chinaza Onyechi; Femicide

Episode Date: October 8, 2021

Over the last few years, the figures around celibacy have generally been on the rise - particular amongst young women. What’s to be gained from making...

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Woman's Hour turns 75 today

Episode Date: October 7, 2021

Our specially commissioned poll to celebrate Woman’s Hour at 75 looks at women and equality in the UK today. It finds the place that women feel the mo...

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Mina Smallman, Pauline Campbell, FASD

Episode Date: October 6, 2021

Mina Smallman, the mother of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry, the sisters who were murdered in a North London park last year, speaks to us about her g...

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Anita Hill on her book Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.

Episode Date: October 5, 2021

We hear from Professor Anita Hill who thirty years ago faced an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee—led by the then, Senator Joe Biden—to t...

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Institutional Misogyny, Bullying in Parliament, Women Magicians

Episode Date: October 4, 2021

Is the Police institutionally misogynistic? It's the question that's been raised now that a police WhatsApp group has come to light which Wayne Couzen...

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Sarah Everard; Intergenerational friendships, 007 Lashana Lynch; 'Late life lesbians'. Married to an anti-vaxxer

Episode Date: October 2, 2021

Zoe Billingham, one of the top inspectors at Her Majesty’s of Constabulary, and Dame Vera Baird, the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales on th...

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Intergenerational friendships; Victims' Commissioner Vera Baird; Nikita Gill and Gnarly; Liz Fraser

Episode Date: October 1, 2021

Are you in an intergenerational friendship? Anita speaks to Emily who’s 33 and her best friend Sue who’s 60 about the unique benefits of friendships a...

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