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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: Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release, Barbara Lisicki & Cook for Ukraine

Episode Date: March 18, 2022

As Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe comes home after six years in Iranian detention, Emma spoke to the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP about what it took to s...

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Barbara Lisicki & Ruth Madeley, US basketball player Brittney Griner, Red Nose Day, Inclusive Britain, Native children in the US

Episode Date: March 18, 2022

Brittney Griner is 6 foot 9. She's an American basketball player, some say she's the greatest female basketball player of all time and she is currentl...

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP on Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe's release

Episode Date: March 17, 2022

As Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe comes home after six years in Iranian detention, Emma speaks to the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss MP about what it took to...

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Diane Dodds, Child Q and Stripsearch, Charlotte Mendelson, Cook for Ukraine

Episode Date: March 16, 2022

The recent resignation of DUP First Minister, Paul Givan, from Stormont last month, has left people in Northern Ireland without a properly functioning...

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Is maternity fashion changing? Marina Ovsyannikova, Caroline Lucas MP & Dame Sue Ion, South Korean new PM, Surnames, Threads

Episode Date: March 15, 2022

Marina Ovsyannikova is an employee of Russia’s state Channel One television interrupting the channel’s main news programme on Monday night in an extra...

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Plaque for women priests, Young women coming off the Pill, Electric cars

Episode Date: March 14, 2022

On Saturday a ceremony took place at Bristol Cathedral to replace a plaque that marked the day women priests were first ordained by the Church of Engl...

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Women and Equalities Minister, Rachael Denhollander & USA Gymnastics, Betty Boo

Episode Date: March 12, 2022

Why in 2022 is there no position in the Cabinet solely dedicated to the job of Women and Equalities? Why is it always tagged onto another cabinet role...

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Betty Boo, Rana Ayuub, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC

Episode Date: March 11, 2022

She’s been credited with inspiring the likes of the Spice Girls and Madonna – singer and songwriter Betty Boo is back. The platinum success artist ma...

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Figs in Wigs & 'Little Wimmin', Former Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, Rachael Denhollander & USA Gymnastics

Episode Date: March 10, 2022

Northern Ireland politics are once again in flux and the government can't really function. At the beginning of February, Sinn Fein Deputy First Minist...

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Joss Stone, Maya Forstater

Episode Date: March 9, 2022

With worldwide sales in excess of 15 million albums, the Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Joss Stone is without question among the most iconic s...

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Women and Equalities Minister. Celebrating the achievement of mothers. Ukraine refugees.

Episode Date: March 8, 2022

Why in 2022 is there no position in the Cabinet solely dedicated to the job of Women and Equalities? Why is it always tagged onto another cabinet role...

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HER Ensemble, Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Surrogacy & IVF in Ukraine, Anne Dickson

Episode Date: March 7, 2022

Emma speaks to BBC Ukraine correspondent Zhanna Bezpiatchuk about the situation in Ukraine. Today the Commons discuss the long-awaited Economic Crim...

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Weekend Woman's Hour: Priya Ragu, Women in the Ukraine, Inheritance laws

Episode Date: March 5, 2022

Swiss-Tamil singer Priya Ragu has been shortlisted in the BBC Sound of 2022 Poll – joining Adele, Jessie J and Celeste. She tells us how her music pla...

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Priya Ragu, Olena Symonenko, Mountain climbing

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

We have music and chat from the Swiss-Tamil singer Priya Ragu who has been shortlisted in the BBC Sound of 2022 Poll – joining Adele, Jessie J and Cel...

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Women's safety, Paralympics

Episode Date: March 3, 2022

'Enough'. That’s the name of a new communication campaign launched by the Home Office this week to tackle violence against women and girls. It comes i...

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Dr Suzanne Simard & plant intelligence, Refugee women, Scottish govt & GRC, Inheritance laws & abusers, Sexist uniforms

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

For over thirty years Dr Suzanne Simard has done ground-breaking research on plant communication and intelligence. She is Professor of Forest Ecology...

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Lucy Cooke on the female of the species, Furniture poverty, Threads

Episode Date: March 1, 2022

You might be forgiven for thinking that the females of most animal species are passive, maternal and monogamous – because that’s been the long-standin...

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Ukrainian women on the front line, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dangerous women and I, Mona Lisa

Episode Date: February 28, 2022

As the conflict continues in Ukraine, we've seen footage of predominately women and children fleeing the country. But that is just one aspect of this...

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Diana Parkes, Ukraine, Unmodified bodies, Joanna Scanlan, Margaret Atwood

Episode Date: February 26, 2022

In an exclusive interview, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and future Queen Consort talks to Emma about her work with domestic abuse survivors. They are...

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Ukraine, Matchgirls' strike of 1888, Equal pay deal for US women’s national football team, and Briony Greenhill

Episode Date: February 25, 2022

A pivotal moment in the history of trade unions and women’s rights is to be marked by English Heritage with the placement of a blue plaque commemorati...

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