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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-03-31

  Women and Eid, School Refusal Report, Author Marni Appleton

Eid is a celebration of strength and gratitude where Muslims all around the world come together to mark the end of Ramadan. Nuala McGovern is joined by one of the first Muslim headteachers in the country, Bushra Nasir, author & podcaster Shelina Ja... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-29

  Weekend Woman’s Hour: Stacey Dooley, Authors Yuan Yang and Sanam Mahloudji, Adolescence, Gossip, AI, Boxing & domestic violence

In the documentary Growing up Gypsy, Stacey Dooley gets to know three young English Romany Gypsy women. Invited into the traditionally private community, Stacey discovers the complex balancing act the young women face growing up in one of Britain’s mos... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-28

  Stacey Dooley, Lily Gladstone, Ask for Angela, Motherhood

In the documentary Growing up Gypsy Stacey Dooley gets to know three young English Romany Gypsy women. Invited into the traditionally private community, Stacey discovers the complex balancing act the young women face growing up in one of Britain’s most... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-27

  Woman's Hour special: AI and women's health

Technology journalist and author Lara Lewington asks how artificial intelligence can improve women’s health, and what we are ready for it to do for us? From prevention and diagnostics to testing and tracking, we speak to female experts, scientists and ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-26

  Disability and domestic abuse, Maternity care failings, Authors Labour MP Yuan Yang and Sanam Mahloudji, Gossiping

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is due to make further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments when she speaks in Parliament later. The government already announced big welfare spending reductions last week - but the Chancellor's been told by the ... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-25

  Protests in Turkey, Adolescence, Women in Revolt! exhibition

Last night saw the fifth night of fierce protests across Turkey, after the main rival politician to the country's President Erdogan, was formally arrested and charged with corruption, having been detained on Wednesday. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Ist... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-24

  Women and the gig economy, Boxing and domestic violence, Leading the UN

Presenter Clare McDonnell explores how the gig economy impacts migrant women working in the UK, especially those in Ecommerce and social care. She's joined by director Laura Carriera, whose award-winning film On Falling explores the loneliness of a you... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-22

  Weekend Woman’s Hour: Sugababes, Lockdown babies, June Sarpong, History of abortion, Women in construction

The Sugababes started their music career together in 1998 but, after Siobhán left the band in 2001, it wasn't until 2019 that Mutya, Keisha and Siobhán came back together as the Sugababes. All three members joined Nuala McGovern to celebrate the releas... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-21

  Newborns & communication, Kirsty Coventry, Women in Construction

Long before they can speak, babies are brilliant communicators and all that those who care for them have to do is to listen to them, to be curious about them and to be ready to discover who they are, and everything else will fall into place. That's wha... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2025-03-20

  Disability and maternity care, Ads in mobile games, Nursery costs, Playwright Julia Grogan

Disabled women in the UK face significant barriers in maternity care, with new research highlighting higher risks of stillbirth, lack of support, and negative attitudes of staff. Labour MP Marie Tidball is camplaigning for change. She joins Kylie Pente... 		  BBC Radio 4 author