Woman's Hour Podcast
Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Jonathan Meijer interviewed on fathering over 550 babies by sperm donation, Gabby Logan, Lisa Jewell
Sat 6 Jul 2024
Why has Jonathan Meijer fathered over 550 babies through sperm donation?
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Lisa Jewell, Baby Babble, Bluebella rugby ad, Genre Fiction - Romance/Romantasy
Thu 4 Jul 2024
Best-selling author Lisa Jewell on her Jessica Jones Marvel crime novel.
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Jonathan Meijer interviewed on fathering over 550 babies by sperm donation; women impressionist artists
Wed 3 Jul 2024
Why has Jonathan Meijer fathered over 550 babies through sperm donation?
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Professor Dame Carol Robinson, Leader Interview: The Conservative’s Maria Caulfield for Rishi Sunak, Michelle De Swarte
Tue 2 Jul 2024
Scientist Dame Carol Robinson on blazing a trail for women in STEM.
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Leader interviews: Reform UK's Ann Widdecombe for Nigel Farage, Wimbledon
Mon 1 Jul 2024
Could middle age be the best period of our lives? So says broadcaster Gabby Logan.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Cyndi Lauper, Accusations of assault in tennis, Sofie Gråbøl, Helen Heckety, Demetrescence, Corinne Baile
Sat 29 Jun 2024
Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl talks about her latest role in a new film, Rose.
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Live from Glastonbury: Cyndi Lauper, Corinne Bailey Rae & DJ Ritu
Fri 28 Jun 2024
Join Anita Rani and guests live from Worthy Farm.
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Adult orphans, Accusations of assault in tennis, Leader interview: John Swinney
Thu 27 Jun 2024
What does it mean to be an adult orphan? Two women who have lost both parents discuss.
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Sofie Gråbøl, Christine Jardine, Women and Equalities spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats, Grace Campbell on abortion
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Danish actress Sofie Gråbøl talks about her latest role in a new film, Rose.
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Women voting in Northern Ireland, playwright and actor Faith Omole, Sarah Ockwell Smith on ‘demetrescence’
Tue 25 Jun 2024
How will women in Northern Ireland vote in the general election?
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Helen Heckety, Taylor Swift’s UK tour, Football and domestic abuse
Mon 24 Jun 2024
Novelist Helen Heckety on living with a disability that is not visually obvious.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Rachel Stevens, Woman's Hour Election Debate, Jill Halfpenny, Interracial Marriage in the US
Sat 22 Jun 2024
Author Laura Dockrill on the thrills and heartache of first love.
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Stealthing conviction, Jill Halfpenny, Henry VIII's Queens
Fri 21 Jun 2024
Man who secretly took a condom off during sex has been jailed for more than four years.
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Rachel Stevens of S Club, The motherhood penalty, Interracial marriage in the United States, Sexual assault during therapy
Thu 20 Jun 2024
Rachel Stevens of S Club. Interracial marriage in the US. Sexual assault during therapy.
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Laura Dockrill, female surgical teams, Chinese #MeToo
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Author Laura Dockrill on the thrills and heartache of first love.
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Woman's Hour Election Debate
Tue 18 Jun 2024
We speak to senior women from the seven main political parties in Great Britain.
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‘Sextortion diary’, dealing with a terminal diagnosis, Judy Garland impersonator
Mon 17 Jun 2024
How a film-maker fought back with a camera after hackers threatened to leak nude photos.
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Weekend Woman's Hour: Paloma Faith, right wing women leaders in the EU, Emma Caldwell case, Chaka Khan
Sat 15 Jun 2024
Chaka Khan, known as the Queen of Funk, on her fiftieth anniversary in music.
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Elite rower Helen Glover, Leader Interview: Carla Denyer, Les Amazones d'Afrique, Ozempic
Fri 14 Jun 2024
Helen Glover - what are the challenges of returning to elite sport post childbirth?
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Graves of stillborn babies, Chaka Khan, Climate seniors, Right wing women leaders in the EU
Thu 13 Jun 2024
The Queen of Funk Chaka Khan on her fiftieth anniversary in the music industry.
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Paloma Faith, Leader interview: Rhun Ap Iorwerth, Parents with learning difficulties
Wed 12 Jun 2024
The singer Paloma Faith on her myth-busting new memoir.
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Naomi Klein, Thornaby FC, folk singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan, author Lucy Foley
Tue 11 Jun 2024
The writer and activist Naomi Klein on her latest book, Doppelganger.
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Isabella Tree, Emma Caldwell case, Baroness Delyth Morgan
Mon 10 Jun 2024
Conservationist Isabella Tree on a new documentary about her rewilding experiment.
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Plus ones, Swifties, Scotland rape rule, Long-lost siblings
Fri 7 Jun 2024
The complicated etiquette of asking to take an extra guest to a wedding.
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Bat for Lashes, Women and D-Day, Author Saima Mir, Sextortion
Thu 6 Jun 2024
Singer-songwriter Bat for Lashes on her new album, The Dream of Delphi.
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Tina Fey, Ireland's first 'witch', does young farmer culture have a problem with women?
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Comedy queen Tina Fey talks all things Mean Girls as the musical version comes to London.
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Abandoned babies, Adventurer Alice Morrison, Being a 'BoyMum'
Tue 4 Jun 2024
A newborn baby found earlier this year is the third child abandoned by the same parents.
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Mexico election, Queenie actor, Breast milk donor
Mon 3 Jun 2024
Who is Claudia Sheinbaum? The first female President of Mexico.
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Weekend Woman’s Hour: Ruth Jones, Netball Super League, FGM ban at risk in Gambia, Muses, Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell
Sat 1 Jun 2024
Ruth Jones on starring in Sister Act and writing the Gavin and Stacey finale.
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Trump conviction, FGM ban at risk in Gambia, TV’s Queen of Books
Fri 31 May 2024
Exploring the role of Stormy Daniels, the woman at the centre of Trump's hush money trial.
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