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2042 episodes transcribedOver the last month parents, as well as MPs and peers, have spoken out about autistic children and vulnerable adults being placed in hospitals for a l...
Following our series of interviews with the wives of veterans who had PTSD we hear from a listener called Sarah who got in touch to share her story....
Criticised for not expressing sympathy for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in his recent interview with BBC's Emily Maitlis, Prince Andrew has since told fr...
Earlier this month, McDonald's Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook was fired for having a consensual relationship with a subordinate. But what a...
It’s well-known that the Roman Catholic Church is struggling to find new priests. Sexual abuse scandals haven’t helped. But for some years, there’s be...
Jane speaks to director, Jessica Kaliisa about her play, Queens of Sheba, inspired by the four black women turned away from a London nightclub in 2015...
In the RSC’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’, currently on stage at the Barbican in London, 1590’s England is a matriarchy. With a radical take on Shakespeare’s...
What do you do when your child says they're too ill to go to school – but you suspect that they’re perfectly fine? Jane discusses with Dr Angharad Rud...
Elizabeth Strout won The Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her novel, Olive Kitteridge. Ten years later, with three prize-winning novels in between, Elizabe...
What do you do when your child says they're too ill to go to school – but you suspect that they’re perfectly fine? How could the ‘whole system appro...
Helen Mirren tells us about her new film the Good Liar and why even she has fallen for a scam.We talk about a DIY home urine or swab test currently be...
The central character of Lyra from ‘His Dark Materials’ lives in the alternate Oxford imagined by the author Phillip Pullman. She is tough, curious, a...
Nine out of ten people get their children vaccinated. But even so, many people still have questions. Things like: Should I bother with the flu jab? I...
Presenter: Tina Daheley Producer: Kirsty StarkeyAccording to Freedom of Information requests made by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism almost 700...
Earlier in the year we asked ‘have you had an abortion? How did you feel about it then and how do you feel about it now? We’re featuring five of yo...
Helen Mirren talks about equal pay and her new film, The Good Liar, in which she co-stars with Sir Ian McKellen. In a new series, listeners talk about...
Lisa Simone, songwriter, singer and daughter of Nina tells us all about her new album. Maddy Prior the folk singer and member of Steeleye Span talks...
How can young women get in and get on in the music industry? In a special programme, broadcast from BBC Music Introducing Live at Tobacco Dock in Lond...
On Halloween we ask where are the women in the horror film industry? How much do women create and view horror differently and who are the women film-...
Here's Maddy Prior, photographed when All Round My Hat was in the charts in the '70s. She's been performing now for over 50 years and she's done more...
