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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-04-26

  26/04/2024

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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2024-04-25

  BRCA1, Open relationships, Wrongly Accused: The Annette Hewins Story

The Internet Watch Foundation annual report has said that children under six are being manipulated into “disturbing” acts of sexual abuse while parents think they are playing safely on household devices. They say 2023 was “the most extreme year on reco...
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2024-04-24

  Zeinab Badawi, Singing and periods, How is the debate over abortion shaping the US election?

The broadcaster Zeinab Badawi joins Krupa Padhy to discuss her first book, An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence. The book has taken her seven years to research, travelling across 30 countries. She explains how the f...
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2024-04-23

  Kitty Ruskin's year of casual sex, The Girls of Slender Means, ARFID

Ten Men, A Year of Casual Sex is a new book from the author Kitty Ruskin. It follows a year of her life when she attempts to embody Samantha from Sex and the City and enjoy all the advantages of being young, free and single. As she details 10 men in 10...
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2024-04-22

  Peres Jepchirchir, Rhianon Bragg and stalking, Nitazenes, Tortured poets

The Kenyan distance runner Peres Jepchirchir won yesterday’s elite women's London Marathon, breaking the women’s only record with her time of 2:16:16. She beat the previous record set in 2017 of 2:17:01. This was the fastest time in a race without male...
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2024-04-21

  Woman's Hour special: Breaking The Cycle

Over the past few weeks, Woman’s Hour has been telling the stories of young people, staff and parents involved in SHiFT in Greater Manchester. SHiFT is a new approach to helping young people at risk of getting into serious trouble and it is all about r...
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2024-04-20

  Weekend Woman's Hour: Ruth Wilson, Young women and voting, Jing Lusi

This week, Ruth Wilson explains why she’s running this year’s London Marathon for an Alzheimer’s research, following in the footsteps of her father who ran the first London Marathon in 1981.Tuesday was the deadline to register to vote in the local elec...
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2024-04-19

  Solitude, Apprentice winner Rachel Woolford, Personal space, Kids and smartphones

Nearly a quarter of five-to-seven-year-olds now have their own smartphone according to OFCOM. Social media use also rose in the same age group over the last year with nearly two in five using the messaging service WhatsApp, despite its minimum age of 1...
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2024-04-18

  Ruth Wilson, periods and concussion, Ashley Storrie on BBC comedy Dinosaur, sewing for mental health

Ruth Wilson explains why she’s running this year’s London marathon for an Alzheimer’s charity, following in the footsteps of her Father who ran the first London marathon in 1981. During the Women's Rugby Six Nations, the Welsh Rugby Union is using a n...
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2024-04-17

  Cricketer Nat Sciver-Brunt, Smacking, Hypochondria, Police drama Blue Lights, Soul Sisters Pakistan

Nat Sciver-Brunt is the first English woman to be honored as Wisden's leading cricketer in the world. She joins Jesscia Creighton to discuss the accolade and her career in the sport. Smacking children should be made illegal in England and Northern Irel...
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