Woman's Hour
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
- Website
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb
- Description
- Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-21 20:44
- last episode published
- 2025-02-21 11:39
- publication frequency
- 1.64 days
- Contributors
- BBC
- Owner
- BBC Radio 4
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1969
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
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Episodes
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| 2025-02-21 |
Jess Phillips MP, Luis Rubiales case, author Nussaibah Younis We discuss the case of former Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales, who was found guilty of sexual assault for kissing player Jenni Hermoso without her consent at the 2023 World Cup final. Anita is joined by Semra Hunter, a sports broadcast journalist a... |
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| 2025-02-20 | A group of 70 female chefs and hospitality professionals have signed an open letter calling out what they call the ‘pervasive’ sexism in British kitchens. It’s in response to chef Jason Atherton saying he had never seen sexism in the kitchen - he has s... |
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| 2025-02-19 | During a tennis match in Dubai, Emma Raducanu was subject to what the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) are calling 'fixated behaviour' from a man in the public area. How safe is tennis for women players - and what is being done to protect them? Ahead o... |
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| 2025-02-18 |
Afghan government rebel over women's rights, Egg freezing, Indian Sportswoman of the Year Why are members of the Afghan Cabinet speaking out against the de facto leader over his ban on girls' education and restrictions on women working? Nuala McGovern speaks to the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, Lyse Doucet, and Fawzia Koofi, memb... |
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| 2025-02-17 | Nao is a Grammy and Mercury nominated singer songwriter. She's described her unique brand of music as “wonky funk”. She joins Nuala McGovern to talk about fame, motherhood and her new album Jupiter. She performs live in the studio. As European lead... |
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| 2025-02-15 |
Weekend Woman's Hour: EastEnders 40th anniversary, Grandparenting, Maternal mental health Laura Kyrke-Smith MP wants more care and support for new mothers struggling with their mental health. Her own friend died by suicide just 10 weeks after giving birth and she recently led a debate in parliament on the subject. Laura joined Nuala McGover... |
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| 2025-02-14 | Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston are currently playing Beatrice and Benedict the sharp-witted sparring friends in Much Ado About Nothing on stage at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London. Hayley joins Anita Rani in the Woman’s Hour studio. Is Shakespe... |
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| 2025-02-13 | As part of the EastEnders 40th anniversary Woman’s Hour celebrates this iconic soap’s track record of featuring strong female characters and exploring some of the most pressing, contentious and emotional issues for women over the past four decades. An... |
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| 2025-02-12 |
Parole and victims, Met Police vetting, Women’s Prize for Non-fiction Ellie Wilson, a rape survivor, is campaigning for the right for victims to be able to appear at parole hearings, after being denied permission to attend one for her attacker. She tells Nuala McGovern why she wants the law changed in Scotland, and barri... |
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| 2025-02-11 |
Maternal mental health, Syria's missing, poet Caitlin O'Ryan Laura Kyrke-Smith MP wants more care and support for new mothers struggling with their mental health. Her own friend died by suicide just 10 weeks after giving birth and she recently led a debate in parliament on the subject. She joins Nuala McGovern t... |
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