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2060 episodes transcribedData from a large study of women's menstrual cycles shows that just thirteen per cent of women experience a 'text-book' 28 day menstrual cycle and t...
A £10 million campaign to diversify the building industry was launched this month by the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board), backed by the De...
Six female candidates continue to vie for the democratic nomination for president in 2020 elections. We take a look at the front-runners including El...
Why does society judge women who are single? We’ll hear from listener Joy, Emily Hill author of Bad Romance and from the journalist Bibi Lynch.Doreen...
Listener Trisha wonders why people seem find it odd that she and her adult son get on so well - she and her daughter don’t get the same surprised reac...
Day Four of Listener Week.One Listener wanted us to talk about how you get over falling out with your best friend. Doreen and Virginia wondered if th...
How do you teach gender equality to boys?
Listener Ellie Kemp wants to raise the subject of school Parent Teacher Associations and the difficulties they face in finding parents who have the ti...
Catherine wrote to us about the wellness industry. She asks whether its relentless focus on improvement whether through diet, exercise or psychologica...
This week Woman's Hour is all yours.We've had loads of emails and tweets about what you want us to talk about this week.Today we hear from Heidi who w...
Somaliland’s first midwife, first Foreign Minister and former First Lady, Edna Adan Ismail tells us what galvanised her campaign to end the practice o...
The Country Girls by the Irish author Edna O’ Brien was banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burn publically in her hometown when it was first pub...
Award-winning author and former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman discusses Crossfire, the new novel in her Noughts and Crosses series, which will...
Talking to your kids about race and racism with Dr Pragya Agarwal and Freddie Harrel.
Edna Adan Ismail has spent her life improving women's health in Africa, campaigning to end FGM and becoming Somaliland’s first midwife. She was also...
Talking to your kids about race. The UK is currently facing a shortage of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). What should you do if your normal supp...
Today’s programme is dedicated to the challenges and joys of the long summer weeks out of school. Is boredom good? Will children fall behind on their...
Director, actor Kathy Burke on her new series of documentaries for Channel 4 “All Woman” which are about appearance, motherhood, marriage and relat...
Kathy Burke: actor, comedian, theatre director and for many people, a national treasure. She's got a new TV series starting next week which explores w...
Police forces across the country have found that the number of crimes involving children attacking their parents has doubled in the last three years f...
